• tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

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

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      6 months ago

      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.

        • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months 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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        6 months ago

        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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          6 months 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).