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Computer related pet peeves (reddthat.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Watched my coworker move her cursor to the right edge of her right-hand monitor to get it to over to the left side of her left-hand monitor. When I offered to show her how to adjust her display settings, she said she was used to it and didn't want to change it. I don't think I can walk by her desk while she's working ever again.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

With Word, people using section breaks when most of the time they should have used the simpler page break.

Section breaks are supposed to be used if you want to have a change in the document layout in the middle of the document. This change could be with the margins, the orientation, the contents of the header or footer, the numbering (eg switch from roman numerals to arabic numerals), etc.

But if you just want the line to move to the next page, use a page break. Section breaks increase the chance of unintended layout and page numbering inconsistencies.

Microsoft should rename section break to "layout break" maybe.

Also, related topic, I really hate it when people just input a bunch of line breaks to get the cursor to the next page, instead of a page break.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

People breaking lines manually by pressing Enter and indenting the paragraph by inserting spaces at the beginning of the line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

When a document of fixed length and short paragraphs, like a resume or letter, has a paragraph split at the bottom and continued on the next page

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Office on macOS in general. Shit looks horrible, it doesn’t respect the OS it’s running on:

  1. Command + click on the title of a window (document) doesn’t reveal it in Finder
  2. Cannot rename an open document (what in the Windows 95 is this shit?)
  3. The Open/Save dialogs are soooo huge and sloppy
  4. The huge IE 6.0-style toolbars with tabs are fucking atrocious
  5. Some updater bullshit that runs in the background all the time and doesn’t use the trusty traditional framework or the App Store

Happy I don’t need to swap .docx files anymore, I do everything in Numbers and Pages these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I use office on macOS. Points 1 and 2 work for me only if the document is saved locally and not on OneDrive.