...I can't think of a noun to finish that sentence, so I'll just show you the screengrab. This happened when I was trying to save a perfectly ordinary presentation (data loss was minimal (no thanks to Microsoft) so there is no profanity in this post), but had to kill PowerPoint and start again.
Gripes from our everyday wrangles with Microsoft Office in a professional communications agency. Why is it so clunky and time consuming? Why do so many of the "advanced" features just not work? Why is there so little commonality between the three amigos (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)? And the great imponderable: what is going on with the whole copy/paste world of pain?
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
From the department of "Jesus H Christ, could copy and paste possibly get any worse?"
Just watch this bad boy:
Now, let's break this down:
- Two sentences are copied from a document containing no Calibri. Literally none. Whenever I see Calibri, I go into anaphylactic shock, so trust me when I say there is precisely zero Calibri in this document. Not in the text, not in the styles, not in the figures or tables, not anywhere.
- The two sentences are pasted back into the same document.
- They appear in f***ing Calibri anyway.
- To quell my rapidly worsening typography-induced medical emergency, I go to the paste options menu and select "Keep text only" to make it match the document's "Text" style (which uses Futura Book).
- The text changes to something completely different and is still in bastarding Calibri.
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