People can hate on Microsoft all they want, but I use LibreOffice on a regular basis and it does the same thing, for exactly the same reason.

Cheers to the person who linked to the "font - hide" solution. I didn't know that one and the equivalent works LO as well.

Delete the documemt

Anyone who hates Microslop's garbage suite of products is a friend of mine without introduction.

Having worked extensively on MS Suite, everything from excel to Power apps, I hope the company crashes and burns (without even accounting for the fact that it's a capitalist construction straight from hell)

Feels good having not used M$ Word since .... So long I don't even remember. Decades.

I consider myself a Word power user. I've spent 1000s of hours in it and I know just about every obscure feature and quirk. I've designed professional corporate template suites in it.

I hate it so much. It is so fucking archaic and janky. It has so many modal dialogs. There are features I need to get to regularly that are like 6 modal dialogs deep, and I have to close them all to see if the change I made was good; if not I have to go through them all over again.

It has a sort of stylesheet, but it has built in styles that you can't delete if you don't need, and the inheritance hierarchy among them is a mess. Then there are "font themes" which are conceptually separate from the styles but can impact them.

I could go on. All the Word alternatives aren't much better because they imitate Word too closely in my opinion. I think the approach to word processors needs to be rethought at fundamental level.

Btw, why is there no container format for lightweight markups? So you can carry embedded media with it...

"This page is intentionally left blank."

What You See Is What You Get we mumble to ourselves, a mantra we remember the words to but have forgotten the meaning of.

Enable hidden characters, find any odd breaks or empty paragraphs, remove them.

Trying to explain to my wife that millennials are the most technologically savvy generation in history, but she just keeps yelling back "give me the Netflix password, the TV won't turn on"

Meanwhile Gen Alpha:
"What is Word??"

My worst experience in Word has been adapting a state based Word document to municipal use. The state knows what it is doing and uses styles as a great way to organize the document to provide direction.

Then the fucking county had a 60 year old secretary create a wrapper for that document and it fucking breaks everything.

The trick is to not use word

While we're hating on Word, can someone tell me why MS Office products insist on opening documents in a 16:9 rectangle and also changing the previously last used Word doc I opened to 16:9 as well? Like, not only will it not let me open a new document in the window size I want, but it also insists on fucking me over on my other Word documents that I've set up the way I want.

Every other application I use keeps the last window size I used. It's crazy. Have I missed a setting?

Ctrl-a, del ought to do it

My problem is usually how to NOT delete the blank page because I put it there on purpose, but any moment I delete something I end up going too far and having to add it again, but then try trim some of the extra trailing lines and there we go again.