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I still haven't figured out how to do this (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 46 points 6 months ago (5 children)

One time a very large, very important word file had a phantom page break that couldn’t be selected, and didn’t go away with backspace/delete.

I ended up opening the raw content of the docs to rip out the offender. Docx files are zip files with lots of XML data inside; I was eventually able to find the bit between the two paragraphs where the break was happening, and deleted it in notepad.

Pretty much done doing that type of task in Word now. Heck, I’ll do large documents in Markdown editors.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Big fan of Typst these days;

    Markdown-like syntax, with LaTeX typesetting, great for technical documents at least

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A glance at their website says that the data is only stored in Europe, though on Azure servers encrypted at rest to which Microsoft holds the encryption keys. That last bit is an absolute deal-breaker for me.

    Zero- knowledge encryption or don’t waste my time. I’m not putting legal/medical/etc docs into the cloud with only a “trust me bro” from the creators of Co-Pilot.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Ohh, I don't use their web based application... The compiler is open-source, so I just run it completely offline

    Github repo for reference on how to install the compiler/CLI version

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