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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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If I see a gap between two lines of text, and that gap vanishes when I commit the document to the web or save it to a file, then it's not 'WYSIWYG'. But this has been my experience with 100% of such editors.

I propose a new acronym to replace 'wizzy-wig':

WYSMBWYGIYLBIACWBFRTWNBMCTYSSIYUC

What You See Might Be What You Get if You're Lucky but it Almost Certainly Won't Be For Reasons That Will Never Be Made Clear to You So Suck it Ya Ugly Cunt

Not as pithy, but at least it's accurate.

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[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Lol the double-down is always funny.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org -2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Everyone else here is getting the same page layout from Word in print that they see on the screen!?! Honestly more surprised than anything. I don't remember it ever happening.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

With default settings, I do. Every document I remember. The only difference is semitransparent header and footer in the GUI. Maybe you've enabled the fullscreen/reader view that usually breaks everything, or it's default on web or mobile.

I achieved high proficiency with Office 2013 and honestly, it's not fully WYSIWYG, you have to do things like toggle field codes for some advanced stuff but 99.9 % of work done by Word users is in WYSIWYG mode. As for what-you-see-is-what-you-want? Well, hard no.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Who said anything like that?

But also yes. If you're viewing a Word doc in page view, it's going to look the same when you print it.

That's true for when you use it as well. Apparently your memory is terrible.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I must never use page view then

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 points 14 hours ago

It sounds like you barely even know what Word is at this point.