I still haven't figured out how to do this (lemmy.world)

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

One time a very large, very important word file had a phantom page break that couldn’t be selected, and didn’t go away with backspace/delete.

I ended up opening the raw content of the docs to rip out the offender. Docx files are zip files with lots of XML data inside; I was eventually able to find the bit between the two paragraphs where the break was happening, and deleted it in notepad.

Pretty much done doing that type of task in Word now. Heck, I’ll do large documents in Markdown editors.

[-] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Big fan of Typst these days;

Markdown-like syntax, with LaTeX typesetting, great for technical documents at least

[-] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

A glance at their website says that the data is only stored in Europe, though on Azure servers encrypted at rest to which Microsoft holds the encryption keys. That last bit is an absolute deal-breaker for me.

Zero- knowledge encryption or don’t waste my time. I’m not putting legal/medical/etc docs into the cloud with only a “trust me bro” from the creators of Co-Pilot.

[-] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Ohh, I don't use their web based application... The compiler is open-source, so I just run it completely offline

Github repo for reference on how to install the compiler/CLI version

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I'll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn't have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college

[-] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The last piece of documentation I wrote was in Jupyter notebook. It looked a bit basic, but it felt wonderful to be in control of my software.

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ctrl + Shift + 8

It should show you the page breaks and section breaks. You can remove them if needed.

And we learn such things by trying and searching for things, right? So no real issues in it

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sometimes you actually have to go to the top line of the extra page, select that break it won't let you delete because Word is the fucking worst, and change the font size to be impossibly small.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is your fault for not using \LaTeX

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Has anyone actually tried LaTex? Because Ho Lee Fuck.

Took me like 8 hours from download to compile of my first document on Windows, and it fucking failed to compile.

Oh and it seems the generated files have trouble with ATs systems so that's fantastic. I built a pretty resume that never makes it into anyone's hands

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I wrote my entire undergrad project in it first time so yeah.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 2 months ago

Yes?

I use it all the time.

Seems a skill issue on your behalf honestly, I gave no idea how could possibly take that long.

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

It takes 3 hours because it's only available as a torrent shared at 56 kbps, then you have to stand up vs code. Then figure out how to setup a compiler, get a bunch of different plugs, then learn the magic commands to compile a document.

It seemed very not user friendly.

I work in IT and I had so much trouble.

How people think my Grandma is going to swap from Word to this is beyond me. She can't even figure Word out.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or you can not do that.

In Linux install a LaTeX editor like texstudio + texlive full.

On windows texstudio + miktex i think it was called.

Then is just about learning the syntax and getting accustomed to using it, maybe write some macros, overall no more than an hour setting it up, and using it a couple of days to getting used to it so you write fast.

You comically overcomplicated yourself lol.

And is not for grandma (unless she's in academia) is for people who write mostly technical stuff or in general text documments that are everything but plain text.

[-] undu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

There's a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)

https://typst.app/

(The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)

[-] JelleWho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Press that secret "|P" looking item. It will help you show what hidden characters there are on a page!

[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think you mean ¶

:⁠-⁠)

[-] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

In case you're using the web app version of word, that has blank pages left over, it's likely that they're actually not possible to delete in the online version.

Hidden page breaks are only possible to remove in the desktop version of Word. I originally encountered this in the university when writing my thesis on the school template (unfortunately we weren't allowed to use LaTeX), and as I was using Linux I had to install a Windows VM to get rid of the page breaks in the template.

[-] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

How can they not allow LaTeX and how would they know?

[-] anon5621@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

By requiring docx format in the end?

[-] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Luckily not, law around here requires all university theses to be in an open and archival compatible format, like PDF/A. No docx allowed for publication.

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