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There is one change that I'm excited about that no one seems to have noticed -- Microsoft finally turned on their typography features by default. At least in my
by lazyjeff 14y ago
There is one change that I'm excited about that no one seems to have noticed -- Microsoft finally turned on their typography features by default. At least in my version of Word, kerning and ligatures were enabled in a new document.
I don't care about cloud storage or menus in caps, but I do care about better looking documents.
Update: it seems to be enabled in Powerpoint as well! But not Outlook or Excel.
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- jberryman 14y agoso if you were using a font with kerning information, Word would just ignore it by default? Astounding.
- lazyjeff 14y agoYes you had to manually turn kerning and ligatures on in the second tab of the font dialog. And you had to select all the text you wanted to enable it for first. Needless to say, pretty much nobody did it.
- mbell 14y agoWhy would you try to create a document in word that "looks good". There are a million problems with using word for typesetting/document design and font rendering is the least of them.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoIt’s not so much about creating beautiful documents, it’s more about making the world a more beautiful place. Everyone uses Word. I have to stare at Word documents all the time. Why can’t I be happy when they look a bit better?
- ptrklly 14y agoIt's okay, you can be happy.
- contextfree 14y agoDocument rendering is much improved in general ...