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When you write your academic papers in Word (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

skill issue

word is fine if you know how to use it

none of its direct competitors have the same feature set, and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

word is fine if you know how to use it

But most don't.
I had to rewrite the CV my job coach gave me from scratch. She's a professional and used line breaks for spacing and texts blocks for grouping. Because she didn't know about some key concepts (like frames or line height) you learn from web editing.

and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm.

That's what happened after i saved her mess (written in MS Office .docx) once in Libre Office and loaded it again. To be fair, this was the document formats fault.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody knows how to use Word. It's unlearnable.

But hell, it's good in pretending to work the way people think it works. All the way until it blows and destroys all the work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

i learned it

i am built different