Word.

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• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The only thing why this is still the case is because microsoft is bundling everything in a single subscription and is also providing you with software that automatically keeps everything updated.

  The software is shit, but companies using the entire ecosystem probably save money. Sadly.

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• Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly, I don’t think it’s the standard anymore. I wish it was, because as bad as Microsoft is, Google is even worse. But I feel like most people use Google Docs nowadays.

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  • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It absolutely is.

    Looking at business users, 365 has 400+ million, whereas Google has maybe half of that.

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    • porkloin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Isn’t 365 a combo subscription for word plus a bunch of other stuff? I can’t imagine many of those people are paying exclusively to use word

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  • porkloin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not a great example since I’m a lemmy user, Linux user, and a million other things that makes me weird as a computer user. But I do have to exist in the modern world and file paperwork and shit just like everyone else, and I honestly don’t think I’ve had to interact with a docx file in at least 6 or 7 years. It’s all PDFs and web forms. Work is all Google Docs and confluence and that type of shit. It’s probably been 10 years since the last time I even opened an MS word client proper, once I left academia.

    Anyway, I agree with you. Word seems deader than a door nail in terms of any text editing zeitgeist

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s free (aaaaar) and it does everything I need it to. The pdf editing is a dream though. Use something else.

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Survival of the fittest inescapable.

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• n0respect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least in Word you can rotate an image by degrees. If you want custom rotation in Paint, do you know what’s suggested? Use Word!

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• isekaihero@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  word documents are compatible with open office and I’ve been able to switch to open office at home with no impact on my ability to save them as .doc files and use them at work or school.

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• Obnomus@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I switched to onlyoffice not looking back

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I honestly have more things against excel than word… or maybe im just mad about how ribbon was stupidly implemented in excel

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• FE80@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bring back Word Perfect!

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It still exists.

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    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nowadays, it appears to be little more than a Word clone, though.

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  • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I read this on the “SpongeBob SquarePants” chorus voice

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• Kronusdark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At least for me, 99% of the time, Even for work applications, a plain text editor gets the job done. And if I need something fancier, Markdown solves that remaining 1%.

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• RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can’t remember how to do that now.

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  • Paulemeister@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The normal user still uses spaces and newlines to format their documents instead of tabstops . Doesn’t use automatic Table of contents or knows how to use sections to make the page numbers show up where they want. It doesn’t help, that the online version doesn’t support section insertion. I pretty much never use Word, but it’s an incredibly complex piece of software, people don’t know how to use. Even the elusive positioning of pictures isn’t all too hard if you know what anchors do.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think I have used word, like, twice in my life

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  • Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lucky you.

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• Pirtatogna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s basically an abysmal text editor combined with the worst page layout software the world has ever seen. Creating documents with it very much resembles masturbating with a blender.

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I too respect the monopoly hostile aggressive territory power abuse into enshittification pipeline business strategy, fellow normal poor

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• protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  edit a pdf? lol? be a good person, never send pdfs, use a proper format, docx or even better odt, just fucking raw md

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