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Wow I haven’t used Word in 20 years. They had this problem the whole time?
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.
That really was a good program.
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.
If Word had WordPerfect's Alt+F3, I probably would have never stopped using Word. So I guess it's for the best.
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).
Wait until you see how how Godawful PowerPoint still is.
Just that name makes me shudder.
"micro soft pp"
And here I am stuck with Google slides.