When in save for myself I like rtf or markdown. But when I need on my work it’s normally something from a template or something already on the server that is using Microsoft format, when your employer decide this for you, there isn’t any choice.
Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I honestly don’t understand why I would ever write up or share a Microsoft document.
It’s just fucking rich text format. It’s obvious they’re manipulating the format to lock down users with less computer knowledge. Otherwise, why is it so fucking complicated?
Markdown accomplishes 95% of what a word doc does and it is legible with or without rendering.
All of the “special features” of office docs wind up being security nightmares, unusable junk, or both.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No, there’s not often a choice.
But I include and discuss a 4% penalty when making wage calculations in an interview.
Even though Office, OneDrive, Teams, Ansible, Jira and Confluence are different toxic apps/websites, it’s still the same “shit tool stack” penalty, one hit.
commander@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My understanding is that Proton Docs web editor is a markdown editor and I’ve seen people complain about the limitations there but I’m not a power user to compare with. Don’t know how well collaborative annotation/suggestions/replace would work with markdown. Fully out of my knowledge base but interested in learning what office text document abilities can’t be done in markdown
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Corporate execs literally cum over MS’s next big thing. A lot of companies use MS-based infrastructure and applications.
My work just issued me a Surface 7 a few weeks ago, and while it’s nice, the fucking copilot key is driving me absolutely insane. I can’t disable it unless I turn on “Fn Lock” which switches it’s function to open up the Context menu (i.e. right-click menu). HOWEVER, if I do that, then the F1-F12 keys’ volume, brightness, and home/end/pgup/pgdn functions are disabled. I’m convinced this was an intentional decision by MS.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah, I mean I’m in that boat myself. But I have the option of SharePoint or Confluence at work and despite the fact that it also sucks, I’m choosing Confluence ten out of ten times.
I get that some people try to do actual work in these docs, but it strikes me as junk every time I encounter it.
aow@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’d imagine you can run some kind of custom script to disable or reassign the key, similar to what ahk does.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I actually put in an IT ticket over it today right after I made that comment, because I accidentally hit that goddamn key again while typing up an email.
IT came back with - and I shit you not - “Open the Microsoft store and install Microsoft PowerToys”
For context, this company takes security extremely seriously. Just a few months before I started, they had recovered from a major ransomware attack, due to some moron that downloaded an attachment from the wrong email. They don’t even allow flash drives, except for Apricorn encrypted drives, but those you have to sign out directly from IT and the serial number is tracked.
So IT coming back with that was a pretty big surprise to me 😅