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2003 February 28

Microsoft !@#$% Word

Sometimes my hostility toward Microsoft begins to fade, and I think, you know, XP doesn't really suck that badly, and maybe I'm too hard on them. And then I get forced to try to edit a document in Word (which you, too, will be compelled to do sometimes, because one of MS's chief tactics in locking in its monopoly is making sure that nothing but the most recent version of Word can read a Word document), and all the seething hatred boils back up to the surface.


Word 2002, with Random Layout
Technology(TM)
Random formatting changes when you delete neighbouring text. "Auto-correction" of stuff that I typed on purpose. Incomprehensible table layout. I used to be able to hold on to semi-consistent formatting by copying and editing paragraphs, but jebus, that doesn't even work any more.

But above all, what goddamn brain commander decided that highlighting a chunk of text and pressing "Backspace" should not actually delete anything any more? I want his head.

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