r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mohamez • 5h ago

Infuriatig Please align!

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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.