tsonfeir comments on Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow I haven’t used Word in 20 years. They had this problem the whole time?

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If they'd instituted Word Perfect's Reveal Codes (Alt+F3...ftw!) in 1993 or so, most of their issues would've been trivial to fix.

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That really was a good program.

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[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

It's still around and used. I see it most often with my lawyer clients. Hotkey templates and key words. Idk when they talk about issues it sounds like marketing buzzwords to me haha. I rarely use any word processing apps.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

If Word had WordPerfect's Alt+F3, I probably would have never stopped using Word. So I guess it's for the best.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or even Ami Pro's keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it's been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can't even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).

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