I honestly have more things against excel than word... or maybe im just mad about how ribbon was stupidly implemented in excel

edit a pdf? lol? be a good person, never send pdfs, use a proper format, docx or even better odt, just fucking raw md

Never understood the attraction. It sucks.

Once you've tried VIM, you'll never go back.

Mostly because you won't be able to exit VIM.

I'm old enough to remember Microsoft Works.

I miss the simplicity of those days...

Used Microsoft Works in the early 2000's. Only discontinued in 2009 apparently.

Word is the proof that God exists and he's still real fuckin' pissy about that apple.

Use LibreOffice

That's how I feel about most Microsoft products actually.

People aren't paying for Word, they're paying for Excel and getting all the other goodies included.

Yeah, LibreOffice is fine for home use, maybe even really small businesses that don't have to trade spread sheets with external customers, but Excel is the killer app.

Calc's a fine spread sheet program, but it's frustrating as hell after using Excel for 30+ years. You can't trust that it will properly import an Excel sheet and it sure won't do macros.

I got so frustrated trying to use Word to write a document at work that I just gave up and wrote the whole damn thing in LaTeX. Lots of nested bulleted lists (or worse, numbered lists) and Word do not play nicely.

Sucks to be the guy who has to edit it when I'm gone.

As someone that recalls using Word 5.5 in DOS for a book report in 5th grade, as with all things, the peak has come and gone.

IMO, the enshittification curve started about 2010ish when MS demanded internet connectivity for features that didn't work. Saving PDFs was its peak. RIP Word 2007, which I used well into 2015.

$150 a year, you mean

Bring back Word Perfect!

expecting word to edit pdfs is like expecting excel to edit compiled matlab programs