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[CortJstr]

Ooo Ooo me too.

Today the Technical Staff told me that he couldn't fix my FTP program but that he could tell me how to do it from the DOS command line. I told him that I was very very sad to say this, but that I no longer knew how to FIND the DOS command line. I didn't even know it was still deep down there somewhere.

He comforted me by saying it wasn't my fault, that now Windows hid it really hard on purpose.

My job uses this theory. We want people to fill our forms out online. You can still download and print PDFs, but we hide the fuck out of them on our website.

[AugustWest]

YES!  WordPerfect 5.1 absolutely rocked.  It was a perfect piece of software.  You could get it to do exactly what you wanted it to do simply, easily and efficiently.  AND you could do it all with keyboard commands!  Genius.

[theinevitable]

sometimes the formatting shit that Word does automatically to "Help" me makes me want to... do something violent to someone.

My favorite is that in the short story I wrote for my fiction class, I put "***" between sections, and it turned that into some kind of weird double-line that I couldn't delete.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Yea MS Word has been incredibly hard to deal with because of its "automatic" systems like numbering and formating. Fortunately, there is a way to turn this off.

[wombat]

Yea MS Word has been incredibly hard to deal with because of its "automatic" systems like numbering and formating. Fortunately, there is a way to turn this off.

There is?  TELL US.

[CortJstr]

Yea MS Word has been incredibly hard to deal with because of its "automatic" systems like numbering and formating. Fortunately, there is a way to turn this off.

There is?  TELL US.

Tools -> AutoCorrect Options...

You can uncheck whatever you don't like. You can also add new stuff like ^2, words you commonly misspell, and personal shorthand.

[wombat]

Hmm, a lot of this stuff was already turned off, but there was some autoformatting that was repeated in two different menus that wasn't.  If this stops weird paragraph margin stuff from happening seemingly randomly out of nowhere I will be forever grateful.

I like a program to have at least an option to use, like, the manual transmission, you know? That's what was perfect about the Reveal Codes thing.

[colmore]

The basic problem with MS Word in its modern incarnations is that it wants to be as simple as a text editor with multiple fonts, but at the same time it attempts to be a complete layout system (like InDesign) as well as an automated document management / production environment that supports _multiple_ programming languages.  It's a mess.

What's even more infuriating is the way the available word processors for the Unixes attempt to ape this same design, when it goes against the entirety of the Unix philosophy of small interoperable programs with a very limited range of functionality.

Properly, Word should be dozens of programs, each of which recognizes the same file format.

Oh and how about the non-WYSIWYG text editor for the Apple II.  My middle school was still using that in 1994, because the Georgia public school system was and is completely broke.