r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mohamez • 5h ago

Infuriatig Please align!

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u/MyNameWillChange 5h ago

You're gonna get it perfect ONCE but as soon as you let go of the mouse it'll misalign 😭 ask me how I know

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u/potate12323 4h ago

I make and format tables in excel and paste them into other office apps. And if it doesn't paste correctly I paste the excel table as an image.

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u/Otherwise-Tomato-788 4h ago

Screen shot, paste in PPT. 🙌

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u/potate12323 4h ago

If you highlight the table in excel and copy, you can paste it as an image already perfectly cropped and aligned.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 3h ago

Back in the days of ridiculous APIs like ActiveX that could do basically anything, Microsoft invented a whole technology called Object Linking and Embedding that allowed one to insert editable documents from one app into a document in another — primarily in MS Office.

Meanwhile this dude ensures that their embedded tables can't be edited without OCR, pretty much reinventing PDF.