Damn You, Microsoft Word. Damn You.

My biggest Word WTF was when I had edited about a page of text, and went away for a new cup of coffee. When I came back the document was only showing Wingdings-like characters. And when I press the cursor keys it crashed.<p>After that time I always go into the settings and force it to make proper .bak files.<p>I've seen the sales people periodically manually save to a separate .rtf because Word crashes and trashes the document and the auto-save so often for them.<p>After decades and zillions of money, why isn't that piece of software amongst the most solid software there is?

It's not just Word. Lots of microsoft programs have modal dialogs that lock out other open windows. Outlook is the one that give me the most trouble.

That is your biggest problem with word?<p>How is that: I imported a simple Excel diagram, tried to resize it - and Word crashed. No problem, Word creates backups, right? Only problem: When Word opens the backup... it crashes. And suddenly I didn't have any working version of the file anymore...<p>(git helped me out, thankfully, but I don't know how my parents would have handled that...)

It's easy to belittle something when you don't know the solution.<p>Go to 'Window' -&#62; 'New Window'<p>Open as many Windows and Modal Dialogs you want.<p>And as I can see from all the jokers who agree with your opinion - none of them actually 'tried' to find a solution either.

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