Dear Microsoft

Get Out of My Way!

Microsoft Word sucks for writing. I spend too much time on getting the text to look like shit. And, because I pretend to be a meticulous typesetter, I correct the styles and other crapola in templates that I inherit. But do these changes make it back to the Great Unwashed? No, of course not. They'll still type two linefeeds after each paragraph, hit the spacebar five times to indent paragraphs, and line up columns with multiple tabs. And then Word tries to help — and makes it worse! Instead of deleting a line, it moves the tab stop left? Making a list? Forget about styles, we'll change them on you in unexpected ways. Think you know grammar? I bet you didn't know that sentence fragments in a list must begin with a capital. Think that the w3c's mis-identification of lists as a block element is whack? That's nothing compared to not being able to format them. Well, Bill, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

2:48:25 PM # Google It!
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