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Kind of impressive when you think about it (infosec.pub)

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

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Excel is the one actual critical application because it deals with data (and formulae), data which is only useful when you maintain its integrity (hopefully you're not storing dates).

Word is just a shitty application for text. Needs that can usually be adequately addressed by a plain text file (or plain text email). It thinks it's a desktop publishing application (goodbye MS Publisher). Any tool that can do rudimentary text processing will suffice for the vast majority of use cases. One might have footnotes and some meta data that might be important, other apps do that well. Even markdown can do that.

PowerPoint, likewise, is a shitty slide show application. Any equivalent will suffice.

There's quite a few other apps, I forget those.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Word is just a shitty application for text.

It's fine. People love to shit on the app because Microsoft Bad. But it's living at the rough midpoint of application quality, at least in it's modern incarnation.