Originally posted by schmidtbag
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I'm not talking about the interface. I am used to all of them. I enabled the ribbon in LO as well.
I am talking about what you expect it to do. When you set bullet points in Word and you have to battle through consistency with big hits of "format painter" because it randomly broke the numbering, the bullet size, the offset or literally anything (it can get quite creative).
When you want a section break and there's no way with a simple backspace you can get rid of that first empty line you didn't ask for.
Or those tab spaces that never align correctly on a virtual vertical line (and with bullet points with sub-levels, it's even worse).
Or about different and completely random (not set at all) paddings within tables that make it sometimes really hard to get your text on the same horizontal baseline (especially with different font sizes, and considering you asked for the same vertical alignment).
Or about the enter stroke in Excel not doing what I would expect it to do. I'm talking about having to alt+enter instead. I'm talking about a go**am single quote randomly needed after that alt+enter for your text not to be interpreted in a random formula way.
Or about the fact that it decides for you in Powerpoint the font size depending on the number of bullet points (until here, it's OK per se), which makes your first bullet point location completely inconsistent throughout slides, whereas it should stick on the exact same spot on the screen (it's just cleaner when you go through slides to have a fixed starting point).
Again, when I read documents produced by my colleagues (and as a consultant I've seen many in various different company cultures), they are never quite right. Always something weird in the fomatting because they gave up spending time on fighting Office. And how many times have they asked for my help because they were pi**ed at a non natural behaviour and not knowing how to do simple (because supposedly intuitive) stuff.
And I could go on and on. Basically, it always does something else than I would naturally expect it to do. And most of the time (not always), in LO I don't have that issue of it doing something I didn't ask for or didn't expect. It feels more natural and lets you decide what you want to do, it is not forcing random stuff upon you.
I'm not saying you can't work with MSO apps. I'm just saying over the course of an hour, you spend 40 minutes on the content and 20 on the formatting (yes half the time), whereas in LO the proportion is around 50/55-10/5. That's where I find MSO to be very unintuitive. And given how inconsistent documents produced by others look, I'd say it's a seriously generalized issue.
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