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  1. ckster says:

    hahaha! SO TRUE

  2. sean says:

    openoffice, yo

  3. cory says:

    Don’t forget “Trying to kill Clippy”!

  4. Brian says:

    This would have been funnier if the author hadn’t misspelled “formatting.” Which, of course, autocorrect would have caught.

    O the irony.

  5. faux_pseudo says:

    Good but I would have added some time to copy and paste it into a new document so that they edit history wouldn’t be visible to anyone who wanted to see the rough drafts.

  6. Neil says:

    hahahahaha!

  7. His_Steveness says:

    Hurm.

    I keep hearing all these horror stories about MS Word and Windows and everything, but I never had any problems myself.

    I do use OpenOffice nowadays, though. Mostly because of the “free” thing.

    • Athanar says:

      It’s mostly because Microsoft Office autoformats everything for you whether you want it or not. That’s why I hate it so much. (I use WordPad.)

      • Mike says:

        Except Wordpad doesn’t have a double-space function, so you have to do
        it yourself, and that wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that IT
        DOESN’T TELL YOU WHERE THE LINE ENDS, so you have to repeatedly
        check the Print Preview to see when you go over.

  8. sCYTHe says:

    THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH!

  9. herk says:

    This is the f***ing truest and therefor funniest graph I haver ever seen on this side :D

  10. ClickClickNow says:

    I live for these graphs.

    How long till the next one?

    *pout*

  11. Joolz says:

    OMG! The story of my life!

  12. likeswordshatesWord says:

    Word.

  13. vervain says:

    Y’all know you can turn the autoformatting fuction OFF, right?

    • raelalt says:

      Yes, individually and each format option seems to be in a different menu.

    • NewdestinyX says:

      If it were that simple — no one would be empathizing with this graph. The fact is you ‘can’t’ turn off all aspects of autoformatting in Word.. That’s the reason it’s such a PAIN.. Once a “heading” is established it can’t be easily deleted.. You’re just stuck..

      • vervain says:

        Actually, it IS that simple and you CAN turn everything off.

        It’s just that no one bothers to learn how, just like they couldn’t be bothered to learn how to do things like bullet lists, headings, etc.–which is why Microsoft decided it would be “helpful” for the program to do those things automatically. Ironic, huh?

  14. Asagaya says:

    Precisely the reason why I just started to do all my reports in high school in HTML/CSS. Tell the printer not to print page information, and you’ve actually got a decent report if you have any knowledge of either. (Though if you can use CSS, you probably know HTML, too. Otherwise, you’ve gotte yourself more backwards than you think.)

    After I got used to it, I was actually able to churn out papers faster.

    The only problem is Notepad doesn’t have spell-check, so I have to rough draft in MS-Worthless anyway or take care of errors myself.

  15. raelalt says:

    This is so right on! This is why I went back to Word Perfect.

  16. yakov! says:

    Don’t forget Trying To Figure Out 2007.

  17. Mike says:

    I don’t think it would be quite that much. In fact, you could shrink that to around 10% of the time and add 50% for “Choosing a font you like”, and a bit for “Fixing the AutoCorrect changes that you know are wrong”. You have no idea how hard it is to write about how fish use their barbels when it keeps changing it to “barbells” (They are two different words; barbels are like whiskers, barbells are for weightlifting.)

    Also, why Notepad pwns with its minimal functionality.

  18. Rybe says:

    By far the most accurate graph on the entire website :P

    No…stop it…why did the entire paragraph indent?! NO! GO BACK HOME! I DON’T WANT A BULLET THERE STOP IT RAGGLEHABGS *crash as computer flies out window*

  19. Laurie says:

    I am sssoooooooooooooooooooooin agreement…

  20. thepahtone says:

    It needs another big slice for closing the clipboard

  21. khendar says:

    Bingo. Takes under a minute to turn autoformatting off.

    Or just use Notepad if it bothers you that much :)

  22. Roflberry McLovin says:

    Why don’t you noobs just do the easy way like I do. Just stare at the screen until it shows you the document you wanted to write with the formatting you wanted in final draft, with impeccable spelling and grammar, flawlessly fact-checked and cross referenced. EZFTW

  23. Whether you use MS-Word or Open Office, there is always the issue of pre-formatting, to some extent. This is just the way it is with Word Processing software, unless of course you want to write your own Word Processing software, or use a program like Notepad, etc. Be glad there are all the options available in both Word and Open Office that allow you to produce some really great documents. You might not agree with me now, but I am sure that at some future point you will – when you see how both Word and Open Office are amazing platforms to create documents with all kinds of cool components – pre-formatting is especially good to help those that have no clue to word processing. For those of us who understand it, just change the settings, right?

  24. Kristen says:

    must add for time spent restraining yourself from chucking your mouse across the room

  25. Kristen says:

    …also time spent thinking about how you were on your Mac at home using Pages to create an even better document in a third of the time

  26. Thisisnotausername says:

    Dang straight!


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