One time a very large, very important word file had a phantom page break that couldn’t be selected, and didn’t go away with backspace/delete.
I ended up opening the raw content of the docs to rip out the offender. Docx files are zip files with lots of XML data inside; I was eventually able to find the bit between the two paragraphs where the break was happening, and deleted it in notepad.
Pretty much done doing that type of task in Word now. Heck, I’ll do large documents in Markdown editors.
A glance at their website says that the data is only stored in Europe, though on Azure servers encrypted at rest to which Microsoft holds the encryption keys. That last bit is an absolute deal-breaker for me.
Zero- knowledge encryption or don’t waste my time. I’m not putting legal/medical/etc docs into the cloud with only a “trust me bro” from the creators of Co-Pilot.
Great info. Thanks so much! I’m no defender of Word or of Microsoft, so I’m always on the lookout for alternatives, though Libre Office most often suits my rather simple needs.
I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I’ll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn’t have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college
One time a very large, very important word file had a phantom page break that couldn’t be selected, and didn’t go away with backspace/delete.
I ended up opening the raw content of the docs to rip out the offender. Docx files are zip files with lots of XML data inside; I was eventually able to find the bit between the two paragraphs where the break was happening, and deleted it in notepad.
Pretty much done doing that type of task in Word now. Heck, I’ll do large documents in Markdown editors.
I didn’t know that. Is everything just a secret XLM file? Am I just an XML file?
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Big fan of Typst these days;
Markdown-like syntax, with LaTeX typesetting, great for technical documents at least
A glance at their website says that the data is only stored in Europe, though on Azure servers encrypted at rest to which Microsoft holds the encryption keys. That last bit is an absolute deal-breaker for me.
Zero- knowledge encryption or don’t waste my time. I’m not putting legal/medical/etc docs into the cloud with only a “trust me bro” from the creators of Co-Pilot.
Ohh, I don’t use their web based application… The compiler is open-source, so I just run it completely offline
Github repo for reference on how to install the compiler/CLI version
Great info. Thanks so much! I’m no defender of Word or of Microsoft, so I’m always on the lookout for alternatives, though Libre Office most often suits my rather simple needs.
I can’t recommend this enough, we have had good, though unfortunately limited, experiences with it at my university so far.
The last piece of documentation I wrote was in Jupyter notebook. It looked a bit basic, but it felt wonderful to be in control of my software.
I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I’ll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn’t have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college
Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.