Tech Support Memes

This should be written out with a random sentence break ... then continuing with copy tabbed four times over ... then 30 blank lines and the rest of the copy written without commas or periods or breaks between paragraphs.

Is there a Plagis the Wise meme community? Someone get one started!

Give me LaTeX or give me death!

It takes two seconds to change the picture alignment method. This meme is so dumb

This is like why css is totally counter intuitive to engineers since it’s based on hundreds years old printing / typesetting concepts.

You can actually simplify this with styles. One of the hidden features is that when you hit return you can have one style switch to another.

https://superuser.com/questions/1613581/change-default-style-of-next-paragraph-after-heading

And you can make keyboard shortcuts to switch to a particular style

With this functionality i have made some cool easy to use templates for writing scripts and you can even speed up some stuff like static webpage design, although word is hardly the best tool for that.

Word is like the ultimate swiss army knife word processor: It’s not so good at anything that it should be your first choice, but comes in handy when you have to control workflow for collaborating on something. Almost everybody has access to it usually at most workplaces.

Can I interest you in confluence?

MS actually broke numbering / outline in Word not too long ago. It used to work fine and now it is a damn mess.
Edit: a word

If you ask them they'll tell you it is for backwards compatibility.

Expect nothing but the best from Microsoft!

I think at this point it's just a huge fuck you we do what we want from M$. The combination of image handling in word and issues with images and formatting in PowerPoint not playing nicely between Mac and PC platforms are literally decades old now.

Also, why does publisher still exist? Just give me a publisher mode button in word where rulers show up and everything moves to default text box formatting and better imagine handling.

You mean learn yet another tool? And I have to BUY it too?

Word should be able to do images decently. It is not unreasonable to expect. People use MS Word to write books and papers and those sometimes have pictures in them.

Positioning a picture is considered publishing? It is a super basic function. It is like saying cropping with paint is wrong and we need Photoshop to do that.

Shouldn't they use TeX?

Publisher is more limiting in many more ways than word and is very old in the tooth.

I have luck using word and publisher together to make some things. Recently I worked with designers to make a workflow for creating and updating a catalog for a customer, that used excel and publisher like an extreme version of mailmerge in word.

All of this stuff is antiquated but people have access to these tools so sometimes we make stuff in them because of who is using it.