Microsoft Office is hands down the most infuriating and absolute garbage software package I have ever been forced to use, and I have used some truly shitty programs in my time.
Never mind that, WP for MS-DOS. Nothing was intuitive aside from just typing text. Did you want to do anything other than just have plain text? Say… double spacing? Or italicizing a word? Have fun spending 5 minutes looking it up in the manual.
I worked at a recording studio/media duplicating house in the 1990s. Long after the Win 98 era, the boss insisted on keeping an MS-DOS computer around to print out cassette tape labels on a dot matrix printer using WP. It took literally years to convince him that we could just use the laser printer.
It didn’t help that we had a specialized CD label printer, so we weren’t printing out paper CD labels, so he always said, “well I don’t trust it!” Guy was a moron. For many reasons- not to make this post super long, but he had a chance to make a deal with Sirius (which merged with XM) before they even launched their satellites. What did he say? “Well I don’t trust them.” Unsurprisingly, instead of being a millionaire, the business is closed and he’s working some low-level office job.
Yeah, me happily using styles getting a manageable layout . . . . that’s more or less consistent with the business style guide.
Any other f*cker even sniffs at my document . . .
Also me: Why do we have to use MS software?
Bosses: Everyone knows how to use it.
I can assure you that a program that consistently can’t save a document without utterly annihilating the simplest of formatting, it is most certainly not a skill issue.
Unless your referring to Microsoft, in which case they are probably a bunch of incompetent nuggets with a hard-on for pretty ribbons and worthlessly complicated “features”.
Microsoft Office is hands down the most infuriating and absolute garbage software package I have ever been forced to use, and I have used some truly shitty programs in my time.
Says somebody who didn’t use wordperfect in W98.
Delete a letter: Why the fuck did the font change?
Never mind that, WP for MS-DOS. Nothing was intuitive aside from just typing text. Did you want to do anything other than just have plain text? Say… double spacing? Or italicizing a word? Have fun spending 5 minutes looking it up in the manual.
I worked at a recording studio/media duplicating house in the 1990s. Long after the Win 98 era, the boss insisted on keeping an MS-DOS computer around to print out cassette tape labels on a dot matrix printer using WP. It took literally years to convince him that we could just use the laser printer.
It didn’t help that we had a specialized CD label printer, so we weren’t printing out paper CD labels, so he always said, “well I don’t trust it!” Guy was a moron. For many reasons- not to make this post super long, but he had a chance to make a deal with Sirius (which merged with XM) before they even launched their satellites. What did he say? “Well I don’t trust them.” Unsurprisingly, instead of being a millionaire, the business is closed and he’s working some low-level office job.
The joys of working for a trust fund kid.
In w98 times you could still run wp 5.2
I mean i “had win98” but mostly just booted to dos anyway.
even when WP went wysiwig I found “reveal codes” was far better than word to understand what the formatting was actually doing.
Eh, mostly a skill issue
Yeah, me happily using styles getting a manageable layout . . . . that’s more or less consistent with the business style guide.
Any other f*cker even sniffs at my document . . .
Also me: Why do we have to use MS software?
Bosses: Everyone knows how to use it.
I can assure you that a program that consistently can’t save a document without utterly annihilating the simplest of formatting, it is most certainly not a skill issue.
Unless your referring to Microsoft, in which case they are probably a bunch of incompetent nuggets with a hard-on for pretty ribbons and worthlessly complicated “features”.
I say the same about Linux
I’m also lying