Microsoft Word

“MSWord 5.1a was an amazing piece of software whose grammar checker literally taught me grammar.”

“Word is good for collaborative editing, but not very convenient for version control”

“At least I can run Word on my own computer and it won't shut down if it thinks I'm violating copyright laws”

“That’s actually Microsoft’s useleas UI. It would be far more usable if they did just open the real system file picker.”

“Classic Notepad/Word and similar Guis that have been widely adopted in Linux windowing systems are clearly superior”

“Word hits the sweet spot of having support for all the complexity the average person may encounter/want to create.”

“For example, try moving an image in the word doc. I have been using MS word my entire life it seems, still don't know what the rules are lol.”

“Those are the versions of Word that even the Stallman himself has praised on his website.”

“I often run into headaches where line numbers are different between the two and content ends up on different pages.”

“Having used versions on both for years, I'd say there was a "dark" time around 2011 when the macOS versions were lagging badly feature-wise, but they're pretty much on-par today.”

“I should have used Word and InDesign; that combo would have prevented so many headaches and been more stable.”

“At least Word lets me choose which dictionaries I want to install during its installation.”

“they have plenty of problems, but keeping the structure simple and applying a style over it is a completely supported way of doing things”

“I've switched to Word akin to how I used to do it with Google Docs as that works much better”

“what some of the most brilliant programming minds ever can produce after grinding for four decades”

“Or open a document in Word. Everything is extremely slow because of the update running.”

“For grammar, use a basic grammar checker, like the kind of grammar checker that has come with MS word since the 1990s.”

“MS word also has character styles (like a CSS style on a ). IMO you should use instead of bold or italic.”

“counting words in a big Word document on that hardware. It takes a very long time”

“there are only two states for long Word documents which include graphics in my experience: corrupt, and not-yet corrupt.”

“a video doing the rounds of Word ('97?) on spinning rust opening in just under 2 seconds”

“There is a reason why people still use Microsoft Office and that is that surprising amount of industries have everything build around it.”

“I find that using style sheets has become more complicated, more limited and better hidden with successive versions of MS Word.”

“MS Word which is still using the searchless 1980s character map and has a crazy esoteric add-on installation process”

“Suddenly, the first document froze and when I closed the program, I did not see the changes that I had made before.”

“Microsoft has a handful of rather impenetrable moats that keep professional users paying for their software”

“Word works very well without surprises if you have learned how to use templating and proper headers”

“The problem back the wasn't MS Word per se (bar some stupid defaults Microsoft had borked completely)”

“since the other attorneys I work with (both in and outside the US) and my clients all use Word”

“Lawyers load their Word instances up with many add-ins specific to their practice.”

“The templating and style sheets allow for a level of fine grained control that doesn't exist in alternatives.”

“Word is extremely deep. The templating and style sheets allow for a level of fine grained control that doesn't exist in alternatives.”

“the commit atomicity and comprehensive history aren't supported by Word either, are they?”

“Yes, AD is the value proposition. Your employees can get cloud-synced, multi-user real-time editing of documents.”

“Word 97 was basically feature complete though (if buggy - the same bugs persist today of course)”

“that it literally what you want when making a document (you know, what Word is designed for)”

“as I am editing docs in Word I am finding my muscle memory circa 1999 or so still works with it due to all of the formatting bugs that still exist”

“I don't want to have to deal with random layout incompatibility issues when sharing docs with colleagues”

“The "catch" whenever I tried Microsoft Word was the menu that had the most important functions (for me) hidden away much deeper”

“Microsoft perfected change control in the legal industry (ms word's track changes)”