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> Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Why have these become the "standard" of text manipulation and processing? I hate to break this to you, but because (especially for P

> Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Why have these become the "standard" of text manipulation and processing? I hate to break this to you, but because (especially for PowerPoint) these are legitimately among the best options, at the very least, distinctly better than any open-source office offerings. Maybe the author is unaware of how well these programs do in their roles because they've been actively avoiding any situation that would call for the use of these or similar programs... the use of a plain text document, not even a lightly-formatted HTML document, makes me think that they actively go out of their way to avoid using a word processor.

zzo38computer 4y ago
> the use of a plain text document, not even a lightly-formatted HTML document, makes me think that they actively go out of their way to avoid using a word processor. This might also be because a plain text document is much more portable (even without needing a web browser to display them, but also can be displayed in a web browser too if wanted) and does not have the mess of formatting of modern HTML. (I often write many of my own documents as plain text files, too.)
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