Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option

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• higgsboson@dubvee.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As has become a bit of a trend lately, they put the useful information in the subtitle so it it won’t get picked up by link aggregators…

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  Now, Microsoft Word will use the ‘merge formatting’ option by default.

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    THANK DUCKING CHRIST! you have no idea how much this will lessen my work load. Now if they could do that for excel…

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    • vivavideri@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a hotkey. Pain in the ass, sure, but less so with a programmable mmo mouse lol

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL that Word is supposed to support Ctrl+Shift+V starting last year. My work-provided Office 365 version of the app definitely still does not.

  I had already disabled the option to paste source format by default, but I am glad that this will hopefully reduce the frequency of surprise font changes from my tech-illiterate coworkers in documents they send.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I had to start using MS for work, among the first things I did was turn off all clipboard formatting capture in office apps. I can count on 2 hands the number of times in my life I’ve wanted the destination formatting to match the source - plus office sucks at it and half the apps don’t respect ctrl+shift+v either.

  I still probably won’t use this (on purpose), but it sounds a bit better.

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  • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Office apps aren’t really designed for the things people use them for. You shouldn’t write a book using Word, nor should you do complicated calculations in Excel. Regardless, those things actually happen in real life, and the people involved in these atrocities suffer because of it.

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  • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I made an autohotkey ctrl+shift+v script

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait until you see how how Godawful PowerPoint still is.

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just that name makes me shudder.

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    • Mad_Punda@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And here I am stuck with Google slides.

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