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> The other major killer feature that I'm aware of in Office is the track changes feature. This is by far the worst "feature", it's a plague that management en
by type0 10y ago
> The other major killer feature that I'm aware of in Office is the track changes feature.
This is by far the worst "feature", it's a plague that management enforces on its employees mainly not knowing any better or just being plain ignorant. As you said this comes down to unwillingness to change and learn something new. In most cases using plain text format like asciidoc/asciidoctor with some version control system would be enormous improvement.
- massysett 10y agoI am a government attorney by day and a hobby programmer at night. There is absoloutely no way you are going to get any significant number of office workers to use asciidoc and a VCS. It's hard to even get a lot of people trained in Word. The agency has training classes when a new version is installed--which is once every few years. People struggle with stuff like the ribbon. To use asciidoc and a VCS people would have to start from scratch training wise. Not gonna happen. I routinely format sizable documents and have to collaborate on them. Word is an abomination and I hate it. From a technical standpoint other tools are far superior. But a bunch of office workers are not going to learn anything else. It would not be worth the effort. Since MS has no incentive to improve Word I grit my teeth and accept that I will have to deal with its garbage.
- digi_owl 10y agoMy personal take is that people have difficulty with change in computing because computers are so damn good at irrecoverably destroying data.
- coldtea 10y agoTrack changes is not just for "version control", and they don't want plain ascii text anyway.