Word frustrations Jul20 '04
Microsoft Word has to be the most aggravating word processing program ever. It’s too bad the Warlords from Redmond have a monopoly over the computer market, so everyone thinks Word is just complicated "because they don’t understand it well enough." That’s not true at all. Word is complicated because Microsoft makes it complicated.
Funny Font Fiasco
For example, have you ever had the font of half the page change completely, during the middle of typing something out? This happens all the time, without warning. I notice that if I try to delete entire paragraphs, or if I insert too many tabs, the font of some paragraphs change all of a sudden! I’ll be working with "Arial/10pt," and before you know it, half of my document is "Times New Roman/12pt!" I never made that change! Why would such an "advanced program" assume that I would want to change some of my text to be one font, and leave the rest alone!?
The source of the problem
Microsoft Word has a feature that allows you to change the font, appearance, or styles of text or elements – at certain midpoints of documents. In plain English, you can type half a page, and then change the font for the rest of the document, which keeps those settings, until you change them again. The point is, the changes only happen to "yet to be written" text, which means the stuff you already wrote won’t be touched, but anything you write "from here on out" will take your requested changes.
I never understood this feature.
In Word, if you navigate to Format > Document, you’ll see an option to apply your changes to "This point forward," or "Whole document." And I’m assuming the default is indeed, "This point forward."
Why would anyone ever want to make such a change, that only effects text "yet to be written!?"
Common sense is "out the window" with Microsoft products...
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