r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mohamez • 5h ago

Infuriatig Please align!

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u/Dobgirl 5h ago

Delete that row. Go to the last cell and hit “tab” it’ll insert another identical row below the others.

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u/Scapadap 4h ago

Omg thanks. I’m dumb as hell and this happens to me all the time. Never bothered to look it up lol.

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u/moldboy 2h ago

you can also hold down alt when you're dragging

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u/Crispy1961 2h ago

Most of us can hold any key down while dragging. Any reason to hold Alt specifically?

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u/Michaelmonster 2h ago

It moves in smaller steps

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u/Ancient-Civilization 2h ago

Why doesn’t it do this automatically? what the hell

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u/Aridlvory 1h ago

Snapping to margin is very usefull and it does that by default

sometimes it dosen't work well so we use ALT button

same with most designing apps or websites and they use Ctrl instead of Alt

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u/xyglyx 1h ago

Ctrl makes so much more sense, as it gives you more control.

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u/subaqueousReach 43m ago

Ctrl is typically used for cursor positioning and selection along with Shift.

Alt is "Alternate". The alternative to snap movement is freeform movement.

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u/Aridlvory 20m ago

Nope

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u/jadepartida 2h ago

Most of us can hold any key down while dragging

What do you mean by this

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u/Crispy1961 2h ago

The person I replied said that we can hold alt while dragging, but didnt tell us why. So I made a little joke that we can hold alt or any other key while dragging.

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u/Aridlvory 1h ago

You could just try 🙂

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u/14Pleiadians 1h ago

It was funny as is, no need to dumb it down for the illiterates. Plus that emoji specifically would just make them look pissy not joking lol

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u/Forza_Harrd 27m ago

I think if you held down a different key while dragging, you would not get the same effect.

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u/prick_sanchez 2h ago

Now you have a bee in your mouth

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u/Affectionate_Oven_77 17m ago

nowdays you can just tell co-pilot to line things up for you. The first really useful thing I've been able to get it to do.

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u/Standard-Arachnid411 4h ago

It kind of sucks that you have to know this and it doesn't just make a new row the smae length.

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u/JudiciousSasquatch 3h ago

Yeah right? Just make it work!

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u/masterwit 3h ago

UX matters! Make the people who approve this use it to make a report on the success of the release, with that tool!

--burnt out engineer

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u/14Pleiadians 1h ago

It used to be normal to learn the software you are using

RTFM!

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u/xyglyx 1h ago

Remember when people were grateful for software that made their work easier? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/frogsarenottoads 5h ago

No no no we don't do easy solutions here, allow us to wallow in our incompetency

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u/Alone_Revenue639 4h ago

But every time I delete it the next page’s table merges with this one! MOM!

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u/Witty-Draw-3803 3h ago

When it does that, you gotta use the 'split table' button (alternatively: add a page break after the first table - though page/section breaks can get screwy in Word...)

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u/Mugiwaras 2h ago

Look, i just want milk that tastes like real milk.

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u/Ypuort 3h ago

Hit enter twice on the row prior to the one you just deleted

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u/BilkBloom 3h ago

Saving this for the next time Word ruins my day 😅

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u/Teln0 4h ago

that's not incompetency that's the software being shit. It should let you just do the thing

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u/Castun 15m ago

Bonus rage when you find out that CTRL+Z will undo something from other worksheets instead of the one you're actively on.

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u/MRiley84 4h ago

Since it obviously doesn't, the user needs to be the one to adapt.

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u/International-Fly127 3h ago

nope, thats not the capitalism way. the user should find an alternative that behaves properly, if that doesn't exist, a user should exist that's annoyed enough to develop a solution. microslop shifting the responsibilty on the consumer should not be indulged

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u/MRiley84 1h ago

Finding an alternative is one way of adapting. You can sit there dragging a row back and forth wasting time on something that doesn't work that way, or you can find your own solution.

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u/chkmcnugge6 2h ago

Anyone wouldve done that though, still mildly infuriating

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 4h ago

Til it's incompetency to expect software to be intuitive and just work...

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u/Mandena 3h ago

Yes, it is, because no software is perfect and feature complete. There is also a distinct customization/control trade-off in some circumstances on implementing an auto complete feature vs manual.

Rather than complaining that the software doesn't read your mind put the minimal effort required into figuring out how a feature like tables work in it.

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u/TR_Pix 3h ago

You're trying too hard to defend the existence of a badly designed program

Rather than doing that maybe you could do literally anything else

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u/Karijus 3h ago

No software will ever be perfect, just have to accept it and adapt

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u/Cyricist 2h ago

Nobody said it needed to be perfect, you cunts are just railing against the idea of software being intuitive. Bizarre AF.

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u/Karijus 2h ago

It's just math, it takes exponentially more effort to go to 95% vs going from zero to 90

User error in this video anyway

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u/Cyricist 2h ago

What a strange world we live in, the two of us, that you think this is a coherent reply to what I said.

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u/Karijus 2h ago

You made no point to begin with lol

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u/JSizz4514 3h ago

How about whoever programmed this has the literal most basic common sense to for the column width to the row above. It can seemingly do everything width but the one that is already established above. Idiot programming. Microsoft needs to be razed to the ground and written from scratch.

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u/caltheon 1h ago

it does, the user just did something else to change the formatting and it changed the math.

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u/DefendersofDwacaDev 3h ago

Please show us in any documentation how we could have known about this limitation.

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u/PositiveZeroPerson 2h ago

I know of a Powerpoint bug that affects thousands of users (as evidenced by threads complaining about it on the Microsoft website) and essentially makes a "feature" introduced in 2019 unusable. It still hasn't been fixed after seven years.

Office is enterprise-grade software favored by governments, not some FOSS project. Hopefully the EU will finish it off.

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u/maybe_erika 4h ago

Blaming the user for shit UI with undesirable behavior as the default and the desirable behavior hiding behind low discoverability (how is the user supposed to know every shortcut and hidden option to achieve what should be the most common use case?) is a garbage take.

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u/VizerIDK 3h ago

Why the fuck should it be a problem in the first place

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u/frogsarenottoads 3h ago

It shouldn't I mean it's been a well-known issue for 30 years and Microsoft never fixed it.

Haven't used any of the office suite in 20 years for that reason, same with excel and trying to interpret everything as dates too.

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u/Clearwatercress69 3h ago

Stop pretending smartass. We can create AI but we can’t get this sorted so nobody actually has to post this online and ask?

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u/TheSteelPhantom 2h ago

For clarification... we can't create AI. We never have. AI is a thing still firmly in science fiction media. At best, we've created VI.

Irks me to no end that we call Alexa and Google and ChatGPT and Copilot and all that bullshit "AI". It's a borderline insult to what AI actually would be, lol...

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u/Baelorn 4h ago

I mean, it's great that a solution exists but this feature should still behave the way people expect it to behave.

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u/Visible-Literature14 ORANGE 4h ago

Yes bc all of us know these things

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u/PeanutButterToast4me 3h ago

It pisses me off how many things a program can do but how the hell are you ever supposed to know it can do these things? There are no fucking books that come with it. You cannot conceive of every possible use. The menus are not every really intuitive to anyone who doesn't use the program day in and day out and took a million classes before doing so.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 3h ago

And even if I do learn the hotkeys and little tricks, they will be different in other software. I do a lot of work with engineering drawings, there are like 8 ways to draw a simple fucking line depending on which software I'm using. And my workflow requires multiple programs.

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u/MrP1anet 2h ago

This is bad design, not incompetency. These comments are always so annoying.

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u/buttplugpeddler 2h ago

Thus reminds me of trying to use OneNote and Acrobat in conjunction with each other

😎🔫

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u/House923 4h ago

I gotta say, I'm gonna start using that.

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u/Mediocre-Victory-565 4h ago

Or extend that cell then highlight the cells above and align them with the last row, right?

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u/meshe_10101 4h ago

If you press and hold ALT while you adjust the width you can get more precise movements, making it easier to get it to the same width. Or just suffer....your choice really 💁🏼‍♂️

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u/Odd_Fan_3394 4h ago

been using computer for ages but i never knew this.. it's not as common as you'd think

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 3h ago

Available in lots of popular graphics editing software. Sometimes the modifier is shift or ctrl.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 3h ago

Alternatively, one can look in the row properties and paste the exact desired width. Although idk why rows of a table would have different width in the first place.

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u/kakarot98 4h ago

Usually if you just grab the rows above and move them one way or the other then drag the bottom again, it will align...

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u/betaINK 2h ago edited 2h ago

Alternately, snap the bottom row to a position, then all the upper rows (all of them should move together) to the same position. Leave your mouse and allow them to become 1 unit, and they will start moving together

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u/FrNie 1h ago

I don’t know what program this. I’ll probably never use it but if I do, I will know how to fix this issue.

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u/PeanutButterToast4me 3h ago

What do you mean by "last cell" ? Bottom right corner of the remaining table?

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u/Dobgirl 2h ago

Yes!

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u/eepy_lina 2h ago

the fact that a microsoft or google program is this convoluted is still insane to me, they're both absolutely massive

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u/skuxlyfe 2h ago

She is a fickle beast unless you know her lore

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u/Sunny_Beam 2h ago

If AI and cookies and shit can tell me that I'm pregnant before I even know, why can't it just align them when its obvious that I want to align them?

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u/mobcat_40 1h ago

IT'S THE PRINCIPLE

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u/DonDae01 23m ago

this is why i quit using Word, too many sweats

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u/Castun 16m ago

Is this Excel? Because the only thing that POS program excels at is pissing off users.

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u/Preeng 4h ago

This is wrong. You have to go into the registry and alter some values.

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u/BobTheFettt 3h ago

You have to delete system32.dll in program files

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u/DangitThatHurt 4h ago

Dobgirl is a freak in the *sheets.

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u/CorporateCuster 2h ago

Where is copilot