Post #1680746
2026-04-25 05:38 UTC
Personally I feel like they're generally pretty good at WYSIWYG. What they're bad at is WYSIWYW (What You See Is What You _Want_).
After I do a bunch of work in Word and I have a bunch of garbage, when I load that file back I still have the same garbage. If I print it, I get the same garbage. So yeah, I _get_ what I _see_.
Is that what I want? No, I want not-garbage.
Anyone remember WordPerfect coming out with "reveal codes" and allowing you to basically edit the markup and fix the issues?
Replies (2)
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 23:05
Word was never good with layout. Move one picture or text block on a page for just a tenth of a mm, and it can easily fuck up the whole page layout.
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@realitista@lemmus.org 2026-04-25 09:12
I don't believe Word ever claimed to be WYSIWYG.