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Lmfao it's still doing this in 2023? JFC ๐
MS actually broke numbering / outline in Word not too long ago. It used to work fine and now it is a damn mess.
Edit: a word
money, marketing, planned obsolescence, proprietary products and forcing people to buy, pay or subscribe to your company
everything digital is becoming simple, easy, standard and capable of being replicated by anyone ... which completely threatens established billion dollar companies that rely on their expensive products.
Our digital future should be amazing but its all going to be bottlenecked by the greed of a few major corporations that want to make as much money as possible by sacrificing technological progress
There are whole swatches of the population who think Facebook IS the internet, ever since they added that in app browser. They buy a phone, install Facebook, and that's the end of their understanding of tech or the web.
Even now as the monopolization of the web is causing issues for everyone, people look at me like I'm dumb for self hosting certain things and avoiding Facebook.
I remember swatches
If you ask them they'll tell you it is for backwards compatibility.
Imagine the category 5 shit storm that would happen if billions of tech illiterate bureaucrats would suddenly have to stop working to relearn Word for 5 years again. The world would immediately plunge into chaos.
No matter how often and how patiently I explain the most simplest tech things to my mom, she will literally just forget everything I taught her after 5 minutes. Those are the average MS Office users. I can fully understand why Microsoft does it. I think it is justified. MS Office is like a benign cancer that would be too damaging to treat or remove.
Yeah I haven't known anybody who uses MS office for a long time now lol
Expect nothing but the best from Microsoft!
I think at this point it's just a huge fuck you we do what we want from M$. The combination of image handling in word and issues with images and formatting in PowerPoint not playing nicely between Mac and PC platforms are literally decades old now.
Also, why does publisher still exist? Just give me a publisher mode button in word where rulers show up and everything moves to default text box formatting and better imagine handling.