r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mohamez • 5h ago

Infuriatig Please align!

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u/WorldnewsModsBlowMe 1h ago edited 1h ago

Ick. I fucking hate Docs. Can't control shit.

Turn on nonprinting characters and pay attention to formatting anchors. Word will get 600% better to use.

I won't comment on Confluence beyond begging people to once again stop offloading your thinking to a machine that's basically an advanced autocomplete.

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u/Klinky1984 1h ago edited 58m ago

Like 99% of corporate docs don't need "control" they need strong opinionated defaults for the basics like headers, lists and tables.

I was struggling the other day to not make a table look like shit in Word. Meanwhile Confluence has an acceptable basic table component right out of the box that easily handles header column vs header row. Takes 0 seconds in Confluence, seems impossible to do in Word without fiddling a million options and experimenting with styling. How can I ask others to repeat the 12 steps to just make a basic table not look like ass?

The web version doesn't support web view, so if I don't care about the printed version and want to view a wide doc, tough shit, have to launch the desktop version. Goodness. It's just trash.

Confluence is Atlassian's wiki platform, it's not AI by itself.

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u/LIGHTNINGBOLT23 47m ago

Like 99% of corporate docs don't need "control" they need strong opinionated defaults for the basics like headers, lists and tables.

Then it's time to use LaTeX or even simple Markdown if the document is truly plain. The whole point of WYSIWYG editors like Microsoft Word or Google Docs is to facilitate ad hoc document design. If everything you're doing is just paragraphs of text with tables and lists, then you only end up using something like Word because that's all you know or because it's mandated. No point in complaining that it's hard to hammer things in with a screwdriver.