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[–] Generous1146@beehaw.org 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've wasted hours of my life, trying to insert an image in a word document without word compressing it, making it illegible, only to find out that it's impossible. I can't even imagine anything being worse at this point

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

Sure, but have you ever wasted hours of your life checking the documentation for the exact string of case-sensitive letters that force LaTeX not to yeet your image 45 pages further into the document, because that’s THE MOST PERFECT PLACE to put it?

[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I never get these comments... I never had these problems in Word and I'm using Office since Office 2003. However what I did repeatedly see are users who, although Office has many possible workflows chose the most complex one and were then too stubborn to change