• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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      Eh, depends. I once had a document with lots of tables. I pasted another table into this document. Suddenly all regular text became bold and vice versa. If I made anything bold or non-bold after this, all the tables moved to the top left corner of the first page, on top of each other. Word did some weird stuff sometimes. We eventually threw in the towel and used LaTeX.

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      Still sometimes manages to break paging and elements are bumped up or down without any rhyme or reason. It’s hell.

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    Been a while since I’ve used Word. If I recall correctly, you can hold Alt while dragging an image to make it act correctly. Oddly enough, I think I learned that trick from when I was really into the sims

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    Formatting in Word is so easy.

    If this issue from 1997 is still affecting you, you probably still use Internet Explorer.

    Skill issue.

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      Yeah? Well that’s just like, your opinion, man…

      For real though, formatting in word is a nightmare of ribbon-esque proportions.

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        It’s not just him. I format documents using Word pretty fine too. I use styles, headers, auto table of content, page breakers, all that stuff.

        At the end of the day, Word is just an instrument. And pretty powerful, I must say. It also has learning curve not so steep as LaTeX.