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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!

Word: no

Everyone: please delete

Word: shan’t

Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*

Word: answer me these riddles three

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[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For the love of God and all that is holy, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT embed a table into Word, from an Excel file, and leave it linked.

It gives you the option and it seems like it should work, so that when you update the Excel document, then later access the word document, it will update that embedded table with the new data in the linked Excel file.

Nope. It will lock up Word, Excel, your fucking computer, even if you open in safe mode and delete that table, everything is fucked.

Just delete the word doc, that Excel file, and start over without linking anything. It will be less frustrating.

It might even be less frustrating to throw the whole computer away, quit your job, divorce your wife, move to another country, learn that language and start over from scratch.

I mean it was that fucking annoying, trying to get access to that document, to even copy the text, and put in a fresh word doc.

And Google/MS Help seems to think this problem does not exist.

Except I'm the idiot that tries it the second time and the same thing happened. (For context, the first time was in college, the second time was years later, at my job. So, completely different settings, computers, versions, etc...)

[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 22 points 2 years ago

You have convinced me to try it on someone else's computer

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Asciidoctor, RestructuredText, Typst, Orgmode, there it works.