Factors:
1. Accessibility. Not everyone has really fast (or stable) internet.
2. Environmental. There's no reason to use more computing power than necessary for the task at hand. It's wasteful. Very few people need the fancy features advanced text editors introduce.
3. Interoperability. Text files I write and send are readable *everywhere.* Try loading up Google Docs on a 1024x768 screen with a 256MB RAM Pentium 3. You'll be lucky if Google Docs even loads.
4. Privacy. A text file is easy to protect. GPG is the most straightforward. It remains small, and there's no way middle-men can read it. Google Docs? Google has root and they're not encrypted from them. So, good luck.
5. Account requirements. Text files require no accounts anywhere. All you need it an Internet connection and a DNS server that'll point your computer the right way. SaaS requires that you also have up-to-date software, a powerful computer, and that you register an account with them to access files shared with you.
6. Storage space. A text file takes kilobytes. A .docx file takes megabytes. My daily journal, which granted has some meta-data but is still plain text, is nearing on 580kb after three years of diligent, detailed journaling. I can't help but doubt that Word would even open a .docx file that large if formatted natively. (Thousands of headings, links, timestamps, etc.)
6. Feature-set. Plain text lets you do enough for 99% of all tasks. Yes, it's not as pretty, but within the bounds of putting characters into a file, you have complete freedom. Proprietary services, on the other hand, have a very very rich feature-set, most of which is irrelevant for 99% of users. The drawback of this is that every user is forced to load these rarely-used functions onto their own computer when the applications load up. That's wasteful, and likely cost the world hundreds of millions in unnecessary energy expenditure already.
TL;DR: Use plain text unless you absolutely positively can't help it. It's seriously better in every way.
#plaintext #emacs #txt #notepad #bloat #bloatware #saas #googledocs #msword #microsoftword #rant
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Wenn in der Schule mehr #Textverarbeitung statt #MSWord und #Bildbearbeitung statt #AdobePhotoshop Kompetenzen vermittelt werden, ist das schon ein guter Anfang. #UnplugTrump #FediLZ
Q: What are your chances of getting a response from #Microsoft if you post ideas on their Feedback portal?
A: Slim to none.
If you've got feedback on #Outlook or #MSWord, chances are fairly good.
#SharePoint, not so much. Or most other MS products.
Waiting for the first of 6k MS ToDo ideas to move to next status.
Did you know that the history of Interlisp crossed with the history of modern word processors and MS Word?
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@steveroyle Just add a note apologising to the reader and use a conversion tool. Don’t even open the file. Just send it to the publisher. Then use the time saved to take a walk. Life is too short to waste it on #MsWord.
Remember, #Office365 has everything that you enter into it also go into their #AI called #CoPilot .This might not bother you, but if the subject of AI scraping your documents is important to you, then try to find an older offline copy of #MSWord . But then one problem would be to have a copy of Word on every device you use.
You can also use #LibreOffice (which I am told is very similar to Word) or #GoogleDocs (a Cloud program that probably shares your data to Google's AI), which is very similar to Word.
@sven @kaffeeringe OK, bin nicht der erweiterte Familienkreis, aber bei mir hängt es an dem Veröffentlichungssystem des #BeckVerlag die eine Mischung aus eigenem Programm und Makros in #MSWord die regelmäßige Aktualisierung der Kommentierungen in der Fachdatenbank auf dem Desktop steuern. Das ist sozusagen das #SAP Problem der Beck-Autorenschaft....:)
Update. As you can see, I welcome #AI training on my (nonfiction) publications.
But I hate the idea of AI training on my unpublished drafts. Among other things it could make my future publications look plagiarized or AI-assisted. If you share that aversion, and if you use #MSWord (even if rarely and reluctantly like me), I urge you to turn off the setting that gives #Microsoft permission to train its AI tools on your docs.
https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021
Thx to @clawrenc for the alert.
"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.
If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:
On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"
https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021
The thing haters simply didn't understand about Clippit was that sometimes you're lonely and just want someone to keep you company while it looks like you're writing a letter.
I used to always have Clippit hanging out while I was working. We were pals. I miss him.
Früher hätte mich interessiert, wie genau es sein kann, dass Strg+F in Word von einem Tag auf den anderen nicht mehr die Suche aufruft, sondern die Cursor-Auswahl fett macht. Heute reicht es mir, wenn ich weiß, wie ich das alte Verhalten zurückbekomme.
https://answers.microsoft.com/de-de/msoffice/forum/all/strgf-blendet-nicht-mehr-navigationsbereich-in/e8551af4-e1cf-48c7-9415-a64a746969f0 #MSWord
Ein Doktorand von uns schreibt ja seine Dissertation mit #texlatex .
Jetzt will seine Doktormutter aber die Datei nicht als #PDF sondern als #Word Dokument.
Tja. Wie bekommen wir das schnell umgewandelt? 
Der #Adobe Reader kann das, das ist aber eine Premium Funktion, für die man bezahlen muss. Online Konverter wollten wir nicht nutzen.
Dann zufällig heraus gefunden, dass man eine PDF Datei auch mit #msword öffnen kann und es dabei automatisch als Word-Dokument dargestellt wird. 
Announcing the Office Add-ins Development Kit for Visual Studio Code (public preview).
#m365 #vscode #office #msoffice #addins #development #excel #outlook #msword
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/announcing-the-office-add-ins-development-kit-for-visual-studio-code-public-preview/
Update. I just remembered a related peeve, this time about Microsoft Word. Grown ups with PhDs employed by a major university once asked me to re-submit a letter of recommendation I wrote for a colleague because it wasn't in MS Word. It had to be in Word to be "official" (their word).
https://web.archive.org/web/20190316204410/https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/ErCof6Q6C8K
#macbook_pro #macbookm1 #MacBookPro with 16Gb RAM : the machine slows downs to unusable speeds (typing goes into the type ahead buffer) just when editing a MS word document of only 7000 words and browser tabs open. Closing all apps and running just word does not fix the problem. The stupid multi-coloured spinning icon goes on for ever. Unbelievable. My IBM PS/2 with MSDOS and framework was a more reliable word processor 30 years ago. #msword
#word #msword Why if one switches on autosave does it come up with the completely bonkers message "To turn AutoSave on and access your document from anywhere, upload your file ...." suggesting the stupid oneDrvie , and if you select an other location also on onedrive, suggests to move !!! the document. This is criminally mad and stupid enshitification. Why in God's name can I not autosave to my drive at the document's current location. This is being done on an apple M1. What a shity combo. Arg
Hab heute zum Zweiten in kurzer Zeit mein Laptop neu aufgesetzt
Hab mich von #Windows 11 verabschiedet & bin zu #Manjaro (#archlinux) gewechselt.
#Crunchyroll läuft flüssig, #youtubemusic, #Spotify, #Minecraft, #Firefox, #thunderbird und Kalender, #Nextcloud & so vieles mehr sind eingerichtet
#windows11 hat einfach nur noch genervt
Nur #MSWord vermisse ich, war als Zusatz zu #libreoffice ganz praktisch. #Fritzfax funktioniert auch
Nur #Fingerabscanner richte ich nicht noch einmal ein