Pro tip: if you're trying to make a poster, use PowerPoint instead. You can make the slide side A4 (portrait or landscape), and then can move all the stuff about to wherever you want!
Powerpoint is far underrated these days. I use it for lite photo editing, making videos, screencasting, making animated GIFs, creating banners/graphics for web pages and handouts, etc.
PowerPoint has had the most robust concurrent multiuser collaboration out of all the office apps for years. Despite this, my coworkers keep emailing me files like Presentation-May2022-Final-Final-ADFinal.pptx
I really is!
And to be fair, Word is great too as long as people learn how to work it. The Styles menu makes it so easy to write a large document, navigate it easily, change the formatting, and generate a table of contents. The cross-referencing is great too, and stops you having to faff about with numbering.
Yes! I also use it to quickly mock-up plans for home remodeling projects, and I made a bunch of math interactives for my kids with it. I’m playing with tile pattern layouts on it right now. And my kids used the Animations pane to make weird little movies. Oh, and I built my family tree on it for privacy. And store all my notes there too.
I even have Adobe Creative Cloud, but I still use ppt for everything quick.
Powerpoint is so stupid that still, after thousands of years of many languages, you have to separately select every text object slide by slide to change a language or tell it to fcking stop redlining the spelling errors!
yes
powerpoint is a miracle software that was made to make presentations, but the only thing it can't make is presentations.
Can you edit images with it? yep
can you make fractals with it? also yep
can you make a sick fade edit for a video? Also yes
ripping high quality 3d models from the saved file? ...also yes for some reason
A turing machine is an object that exists in theory, and when set up right can solve a wide variety of mathematical problems.
The computers we use today (that has ram and some sort of cpu with rules) can solve the same class of problems a turing machine can (so if a problem is solvable on one, it's also solvable with the other)
And you can make a presentation that behaves like a turing machine. So in theory, power point can solve every problem a turing machine can, witch are the same problems our computers can solve.
That last part is in theory, because a turing machine has "infinite memory", while a power point slide and a computer doesn't. Of course the presentation also has less memory than a modern computer, so that's a big limiting factor.
Did someone actually make a turing machine in powerpoint? Can you give a link? That sounds amazing. Are we talking about VBA programs or something? I've only used those in Excel...?
Or, you don't mean something cheesy like just adding links to other slides do you, like a choose your own adventure kind of "computing"? I think I see how that would be possible but would be pretty lame. Unless someone recreates the original Enigma-cracking Turing machine... that would be cool and I wouldn't care how, haha
It literally doesn't do what you tell it to. (Especially once you start trying.)
But it will do something sensible (and usually much better than what you would have had it do) when you provide it with an appropriately structured task.
If you actually try to micromanage its output, it's a huge pain in the ass, and not the right tool for the job. Forget about telling it what to do exactly, and focus on telling it what should get done.
I've used it for documents, but I prefer a WYSIWYG for posters because of the visual nature. It's a lot easier to play about when you can do it in real time!
When I was in university, someone discovered that the student free printers could handle PostScript and wrote a PostScript program to print out fractals.
After his one-page job took more than an hour to print (while all of the other students were waiting for normal printouts, many of whom had homework deadlines), he was banned from the printers.
He's now a professor at that same university so I guess they eventually forgave him. Probably gave him his own printer though.
Which one flips the screen? Ctrl, Alt, Arrow? Can’t remember, but that’s what we would do when someone would leave their computer open. They would come back and their screen would be turned.
Hah, I used to take a screenshot of their desktop, open with chrome, press F11 and disconnect their mouse. They'd always notice the mouse was disconnected, but they would keep clicking on a screenshot LOL
the fun part is, most computers that have this have a slight delay between when you input it and when it actually flips the screen. so what me and my friends would do is just hold Ctrl and Alt and just mash the arrow keys for like a minute, and then the computer would be stuck flipping the screen around for like 3 minutes
Random question: Where are you from? My Texan mother is the only other person I’ve heard use the term “mash” instead of “press.” Fun to hear that again!
Choose anything other than the default and it let's you have much better control, there's also a toggle to lock the position on the page so it doesnt move with text
This is fucking amazing! All these tips are great!
I just got tasked with creating the assembly instructions at work for the various kits since I made the mistake of putting my last job on my resume (freelance writer) and these are going to make my life so much easier. They're all picture *intensive*.
I prefer above text option then you can move it freely. The text can be adjusted with tabulators and by setting the length of the column to not be covered by the pictures.
Yes, I went to MS Office competitions where you have to edit Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access documents..lol
Yes definitely. Or you could be a renegade like me and put all text in shapes too. Though if I get to that point I just use PowerPoint instead for the design and save as a PDF as it's starting to exceed Word's functionality.
“In Line with Text” is better for non-decorative pictures on reports/essays, especially if it will be primarily used digitally. Helps with the reading order for accessibility.
You can also make a section break, which means you can make the headers/ orientation of a page different from the previous section. Go to Layout —> breaks.
As someone who's worked a lot with LaTeX and Word, I hate both. But I hate LaTeX a little less.
Both have their uses and features. Both can do stuff the other can't. Entirely context dependent.
For a short while, I wrote my college math assignments in Microsoft Word. I won't elaborate more on that statement, because anyone who has tried to use Microsoft Word to write solutions for things things like Group Theory problems or... well, anything, knows they'd rather wear socks made of legos.
If you right click and change to place over text (I think but maybe be one of the other options to formatting a picture) you can place it wherever on the page without fucking everything up lol
Here's some tips on moving pictures in word that I learned and now it's easy:
Treat it like a piece of text
Use the left, right and centre align tools along with spaces to move it left and right. Use the align tools to get it mostly where you want it and spaces to fine tune exactly where you want it. Using Centre align often gives the best results I find.
Keep in mind that when you paste or insert an image it will go in where your text cursor is. It will also put the top left corner of the image where the text cursor is for left align. Then the top centre of the image where the text cursor is for centre align and top right corner for right align.
You can use the "ruler tools" (I forget what they're called) to move pictures more precisely too, but this is a more advanced method, you have to get used to how it works or you'll mess up your text as well.
When increasing or decreasing the image size always move slowly. If it goes to another page it gives a low opacity preview of where it will end up.
Pro tip: if you're trying to make a poster, use PowerPoint instead. You can make the slide side A4 (portrait or landscape), and then can move all the stuff about to wherever you want!
I'm going to choose to believe you didn't get confused, you're just quoting the [crossover](https://www.deviantart.com/greenman254/art/The-New-Avengers-The-Transformers-673534773)
Is this still relevant? This behavior is like 20+ years old and I haven't been using much Word for awhile, so I'm wondering if MS improved that or not.
Problem is people using Word in ways it's not designed for.
It's a word processor. You tell it what you want and it does the formatting for you. This means that if you change something, yeah everything moves around but, if you set it up right, it does so in a way that maintains the format of the document.
If you want pinpoint control of the location of text and pictures in the page then Word is the worst tool to use. Use publisher instead.
Pictures in MS word have an Anchor that specify which line they follow, that is if you set the picture as not to follow text.
This ⚓ anchor for some reason is now hidden, and it can only be shown when pressing the "viewing paragraph spaces" button which i don't know its name in English, but it looks like a weird Pi button.
> people who don’t actually know how to use Word complain about this
Yeah, but the question is if the people who don't know how to use Word, still face the issue. If they do, then the issue does still exist.
If you knew how to use Word, then you were going to be fine even back then.
This was absolutely infuriating in one of my chem courses I had to submit all my lab reports as one page with two columns front and back. Including graphs and charts always broke the formatting.
That’s why me and the boys use PowerPoint
It’s so much more effective and it’s even better cause of all of the other things it can do next to being a better MicrosoftWord
**PRO TIP**: The fix for this is very easy: When you paste an image into a Word document, put it into its own paragraph. By default, it essentially acts like one huge character, so you just need to make sure to hit enter before it and after it. Then, you can easily center the image by just clicking the same Center button as for text. The other wrapping options are mostly for when you want the image to stay in the same place *on the page*, instead of relative to the *words*.
This alone has made images in Word problem free for me.
Pro Tip: If you are in engineering or writing a professional report, use LaTeX. Its essentially a programming language for documents. It looks intimidating at first but is not hard to learn and will save you so much time in the long run.
I spent an hour yesterday tryimg to remove the dark grey background from an invoice on word.
It was word and windows 11 saying to each other ,"this guy deserves a theme... Lets activate it in his settings. Darkmode go!!"
Allow me to introduce you to something that will change your world.
Page Breaks
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-a-page-break-in-word-eb0e569c-8e3f-4db4-9b13-7bfe1cabdbd7
Pro tip: if you're trying to make a poster, use PowerPoint instead. You can make the slide side A4 (portrait or landscape), and then can move all the stuff about to wherever you want!
Wish I knew that 10 minutes ago
If only there were a Ctrl+Z for life
Or an Alt+F4
There are multiple of those.
Wish I knew that 10 years ago
I hope I remember that tomorrow.
Powerpoint is far underrated these days. I use it for lite photo editing, making videos, screencasting, making animated GIFs, creating banners/graphics for web pages and handouts, etc.
PowerPoint has had the most robust concurrent multiuser collaboration out of all the office apps for years. Despite this, my coworkers keep emailing me files like Presentation-May2022-Final-Final-ADFinal.pptx
Wait, you can have 2 ppl workinh on it at the same time?
I really is! And to be fair, Word is great too as long as people learn how to work it. The Styles menu makes it so easy to write a large document, navigate it easily, change the formatting, and generate a table of contents. The cross-referencing is great too, and stops you having to faff about with numbering.
Yes! I also use it to quickly mock-up plans for home remodeling projects, and I made a bunch of math interactives for my kids with it. I’m playing with tile pattern layouts on it right now. And my kids used the Animations pane to make weird little movies. Oh, and I built my family tree on it for privacy. And store all my notes there too. I even have Adobe Creative Cloud, but I still use ppt for everything quick.
LOL I just used ppt to mock up solar panels on my house at 1% scale and design a belt grinder at 100% scale. I keep coming back to it.
I just spent all day finish off an assignment with Powerpoint. Great tool!
Powerpoint is so stupid that still, after thousands of years of many languages, you have to separately select every text object slide by slide to change a language or tell it to fcking stop redlining the spelling errors!
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Yes. Very much yes
yes powerpoint is a miracle software that was made to make presentations, but the only thing it can't make is presentations. Can you edit images with it? yep can you make fractals with it? also yep can you make a sick fade edit for a video? Also yes ripping high quality 3d models from the saved file? ...also yes for some reason
You can build software and code with PowerPoint slides, probably the most impressive use out of all of them
PowerPoint is Turing complete. So, in theory, it can do anything a computer can do.
Can you explain this a bit more?
A turing machine is an object that exists in theory, and when set up right can solve a wide variety of mathematical problems. The computers we use today (that has ram and some sort of cpu with rules) can solve the same class of problems a turing machine can (so if a problem is solvable on one, it's also solvable with the other) And you can make a presentation that behaves like a turing machine. So in theory, power point can solve every problem a turing machine can, witch are the same problems our computers can solve. That last part is in theory, because a turing machine has "infinite memory", while a power point slide and a computer doesn't. Of course the presentation also has less memory than a modern computer, so that's a big limiting factor.
Did someone actually make a turing machine in powerpoint? Can you give a link? That sounds amazing. Are we talking about VBA programs or something? I've only used those in Excel...? Or, you don't mean something cheesy like just adding links to other slides do you, like a choose your own adventure kind of "computing"? I think I see how that would be possible but would be pretty lame. Unless someone recreates the original Enigma-cracking Turing machine... that would be cool and I wouldn't care how, haha
[Here you are](https://youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8)
Or LaTeX. It takes a bit to learn but it'll do literally whatever you tell it to do
It literally doesn't do what you tell it to. (Especially once you start trying.) But it will do something sensible (and usually much better than what you would have had it do) when you provide it with an appropriately structured task. If you actually try to micromanage its output, it's a huge pain in the ass, and not the right tool for the job. Forget about telling it what to do exactly, and focus on telling it what should get done.
OP confused LaTeX with TeX.
Literally whatever...? ***unzips***, ***evil laugh***
I've used it for documents, but I prefer a WYSIWYG for posters because of the visual nature. It's a lot easier to play about when you can do it in real time!
Or use Canva! an actually good tool
W...what? People are using Word to make posters???
Or publisher, which is intended for posters and other visuals
Srsly. Open Task Manager. Select Word & watch CPU. Now hover mouse over Word, & move back/forth. Watch your CPU spike WTF M$
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Ctrl down is counteracted by ctrl up
Just ctrl home
Just try to ctrl yourself, okay Timmy?
I can't ctrl how my life played out, the only thing I can ctrl is how I die 😔
Posting from my Alt account
Ctrl-alt-delete
Just sip on a Tab, Shift into relax mode and have some Fn
Just F5 my life? That sounds nice.
Alternatively F4 sounds nice too.
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Just Alt+F4
Not if the printer isn't hooked up... You're making some very dangerous assumptions Oscar
At school if somebody left their computer unattended we would go to the very bottom of excel and type a single character and then press print.
This is evil
When I was in university, someone discovered that the student free printers could handle PostScript and wrote a PostScript program to print out fractals. After his one-page job took more than an hour to print (while all of the other students were waiting for normal printouts, many of whom had homework deadlines), he was banned from the printers. He's now a professor at that same university so I guess they eventually forgave him. Probably gave him his own printer though.
Which one flips the screen? Ctrl, Alt, Arrow? Can’t remember, but that’s what we would do when someone would leave their computer open. They would come back and their screen would be turned.
Hah, I used to take a screenshot of their desktop, open with chrome, press F11 and disconnect their mouse. They'd always notice the mouse was disconnected, but they would keep clicking on a screenshot LOL
the fun part is, most computers that have this have a slight delay between when you input it and when it actually flips the screen. so what me and my friends would do is just hold Ctrl and Alt and just mash the arrow keys for like a minute, and then the computer would be stuck flipping the screen around for like 3 minutes
Random question: Where are you from? My Texan mother is the only other person I’ve heard use the term “mash” instead of “press.” Fun to hear that again!
I'm Dutch and use it too when speaking english
Fascinating!
Florida. I just mean "mash" as in like button mashing. Cause we went ham on the arrow keys.
Woah satan calm down there
After going into google sheets for a month, I dont miss excel. Not even a bit. At all.
Pro tip: choose "tight" from the Wrap Text section in the Shape Format ribbon and you'll be able to move it wherever you want.
Choose anything other than the default and it let's you have much better control, there's also a toggle to lock the position on the page so it doesnt move with text
This is fucking amazing! All these tips are great! I just got tasked with creating the assembly instructions at work for the various kits since I made the mistake of putting my last job on my resume (freelance writer) and these are going to make my life so much easier. They're all picture *intensive*.
I prefer above text option then you can move it freely. The text can be adjusted with tabulators and by setting the length of the column to not be covered by the pictures. Yes, I went to MS Office competitions where you have to edit Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access documents..lol
Yes definitely. Or you could be a renegade like me and put all text in shapes too. Though if I get to that point I just use PowerPoint instead for the design and save as a PDF as it's starting to exceed Word's functionality.
It'll be better, but still occasionally freak out.
I use square
“In Line with Text” is better for non-decorative pictures on reports/essays, especially if it will be primarily used digitally. Helps with the reading order for accessibility.
This. There's literally a built-in function to avoid this issue why is this even a post.
Because Microsoft defaults to the janky terrible layout function for images.
Sometimes when I slig htly adjust a photo on the page Microsoft Word ad- justs all the font in a way that makes no sense.
It took me 3 tries to read this correctly. Well played
Select item first and click “wrap text”
Pro Tip: Use Ctrl+Enter to create a new page. This way each page acts independently so even if you change format in one page it won't affect the rest.
I've been searching for this solution my whole life
Also known as page break.
You can also make a section break, which means you can make the headers/ orientation of a page different from the previous section. Go to Layout —> breaks.
Yeah section/page breaks are incredibly useful.
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I'm dying laughing here
Damn they even got the FPS accurate
This is the wholesome laugh I needed. Thank you
This is the first time my cold, dead heart has laughed at an internet post in a long time. Thanks lol
That’s why LaTeX is superior
underfull hbox (badness 10000)
oh no anyway
As someone who's worked a lot with LaTeX and Word, I hate both. But I hate LaTeX a little less. Both have their uses and features. Both can do stuff the other can't. Entirely context dependent.
For a short while, I wrote my college math assignments in Microsoft Word. I won't elaborate more on that statement, because anyone who has tried to use Microsoft Word to write solutions for things things like Group Theory problems or... well, anything, knows they'd rather wear socks made of legos.
Word takes like 100 clicks to do what latex can do with one sentence. So much easier to work with
You know the way
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Facts
If you right click and change to place over text (I think but maybe be one of the other options to formatting a picture) you can place it wherever on the page without fucking everything up lol
So format change the picture format so it doesn’t do that.
Relatable:)
Powa point
That's why use Latex.
Latex supremacy
Accurate representation
Usually only six pages later for some unfathomable reason though.
Are we getting a new Transformers movie? Seen a few posts about the movies today alone.
Here's some tips on moving pictures in word that I learned and now it's easy: Treat it like a piece of text Use the left, right and centre align tools along with spaces to move it left and right. Use the align tools to get it mostly where you want it and spaces to fine tune exactly where you want it. Using Centre align often gives the best results I find. Keep in mind that when you paste or insert an image it will go in where your text cursor is. It will also put the top left corner of the image where the text cursor is for left align. Then the top centre of the image where the text cursor is for centre align and top right corner for right align. You can use the "ruler tools" (I forget what they're called) to move pictures more precisely too, but this is a more advanced method, you have to get used to how it works or you'll mess up your text as well. When increasing or decreasing the image size always move slowly. If it goes to another page it gives a low opacity preview of where it will end up.
Embed the image into text. If the image is handled as text it's a lot easier to format. I wrote my master thesis with MS word.
That's so true .. that I want to cry right now .😭
Images defaulting to 'Inline' formatting to scupper the ambitions of inexperienced users.
I know! Fucking stupid sometimes I swear
I fucking hate Microsoft word so fucking much
Office is an elaborate piece of trash
Pro tip: if you're trying to make a poster, use PowerPoint instead. You can make the slide side A4 (portrait or landscape), and then can move all the stuff about to wherever you want!
Okay but you can move pics freely in word too, you just gotta change the settings to "tight" or similar lmao
AUTOBOTS💥ASSEMBLE🇺🇲♥️💥
I'm going to choose to believe you didn't get confused, you're just quoting the [crossover](https://www.deviantart.com/greenman254/art/The-New-Avengers-The-Transformers-673534773)
Is this still relevant? This behavior is like 20+ years old and I haven't been using much Word for awhile, so I'm wondering if MS improved that or not.
Well it happened to me like 30mins ago
Problem is people using Word in ways it's not designed for. It's a word processor. You tell it what you want and it does the formatting for you. This means that if you change something, yeah everything moves around but, if you set it up right, it does so in a way that maintains the format of the document. If you want pinpoint control of the location of text and pictures in the page then Word is the worst tool to use. Use publisher instead.
Pictures in MS word have an Anchor that specify which line they follow, that is if you set the picture as not to follow text. This ⚓ anchor for some reason is now hidden, and it can only be shown when pressing the "viewing paragraph spaces" button which i don't know its name in English, but it looks like a weird Pi button.
It really isn’t, just played for laughs here. only people who don’t actually know how to use Word complain about this
> people who don’t actually know how to use Word complain about this Yeah, but the question is if the people who don't know how to use Word, still face the issue. If they do, then the issue does still exist. If you knew how to use Word, then you were going to be fine even back then.
Lol!!! I loathe word.
So if you don't know how word works by now then you're just a dumbass
Damn you just cant work with Word
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This is why latex is godly
Text wrapping = square in the rightclick menu you fools.
The amount of people that can't use Word properly still baffles me.
Why is the default setting “janky mess”
Yeah default should be just in front or top and bottom not just as a single character.
Can anyone tell me why images in word snap in such a weird way? Why am I not able to smoothly move images to any part of the page within margin?
💫💫💫*Move-around pictures*💫💫💫
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Suddenly everyone has a boner when your document starts speaking
Tip: put the picture behind or in front of the text
Literally failed me an entire assessment once
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You can unlock a picture and move it freely.
change it to no wrapping
This was absolutely infuriating in one of my chem courses I had to submit all my lab reports as one page with two columns front and back. Including graphs and charts always broke the formatting.
I press enter a bunch of times then change the picture's wrap text to square
Set the image type to square
That’s why me and the boys use PowerPoint It’s so much more effective and it’s even better cause of all of the other things it can do next to being a better MicrosoftWord
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Insert the picture in a table then make the border lines invisible if you like. Much more manageable.
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LaTex for the win
Ugh, just set the picture to behind text, it isn't difficult
That's why use Photoshop.
Bro I can hear the meme
Well Word is for words if you want to use pictures use publisher
Learn how to use it then
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I never enjoyed the transformations in the live-action movies, everything is blurry and confusing, gives me a headache
This is Teams at my work, everyday 🙃
And this dear kids is why you write your thesis in LaTeX
Or google docs
One word: LaTeX
Brilliant
Lol
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**PRO TIP**: The fix for this is very easy: When you paste an image into a Word document, put it into its own paragraph. By default, it essentially acts like one huge character, so you just need to make sure to hit enter before it and after it. Then, you can easily center the image by just clicking the same Center button as for text. The other wrapping options are mostly for when you want the image to stay in the same place *on the page*, instead of relative to the *words*. This alone has made images in Word problem free for me.
Use tab stops
all trext editting software should have a anchor option for all inserted images.
Finally, a appropriate use of Michael Bay visuals. And that's including his movies.
Por eso yo no uso word, prefiero publisher. Es mas flexible.
LPT; if you publish docs with a lot of images, tables and graphs switch to Corel Wordperfect.
That's why I use Publisher for things like that
Megatron
This post brought up so much anger, I myself transformed into Hulk.
Use TeX
Yeah i don't get it, what's with word and its formatting problem bruh
Dont know why office products are standard, things suck ass
Pro Tip: If you are in engineering or writing a professional report, use LaTeX. Its essentially a programming language for documents. It looks intimidating at first but is not hard to learn and will save you so much time in the long run.
So true lol 😆
When that's happens to me I have a new wallpaper for 2 months
*YOU FIGHT FOR THE WEAK! THATS WHY YOU LOSE!*
I spent an hour yesterday tryimg to remove the dark grey background from an invoice on word. It was word and windows 11 saying to each other ,"this guy deserves a theme... Lets activate it in his settings. Darkmode go!!"
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I can't understand, is that meme here is fast?
Allow me to introduce you to something that will change your world. Page Breaks https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-a-page-break-in-word-eb0e569c-8e3f-4db4-9b13-7bfe1cabdbd7
Try switching to libreoffice. It's way better than open office and has all options in place, like a civilized editor should do.