#fuck u microsoft

[thelilylav]

I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification I hate you two step verification

[renapuppy]

I have been saying this for a while, this has contributed to the appification of the entire internet; including when you aren't even on mobile. it is just utter hubris. having worked in tech support allowed me to see this firsthand.

its how you get people who don't know what the fundamental concept of a website is; all they know is that you tell google what you want and it gives it to you. and its not their fault. its the overarching philosophy of trying to obfuscate how a computer works.

not to enforce gender roles but a computer should NOT fucking have apps okay. if I wanted an app I'd go on my phone my laptop is for Programs. I mean this.

[sordidmorbid]

microsoft has sabotaged my brain because the rouge filter i use on All Of My Art to make it more purple and vibrant is Gone and now everything looks like this im going to autism about it

[littlest-bugz]

Me, writing my silly little book in google docs : ^u^

Google Docs : Why dont you try Gemini to summarize this paragraph!!

Me, no thoughts, out loud : "Perish. Immediately."

[tronlightcyclerun]

screaming and shaking the disney execs WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE THREE !!! THREE !!!! VERSIONS OF EVOLUTION AND WHY DID YOU BREAK THE PC VERSION BY STOPPING USING THE SERVICE IT RUNS OFF OF !!!! IM GOING TO KILL YOU WITH HAMMERS

[oh-gh0st]

this has to be the best ive ever drawn him. im in love..

[annieisyourfavourite]

they changed how we submit invoices at work and they weren't responding to our email inquiries about it. and my arch nemesis jared in accounting finally sent an email "with links outlining the step by step process" and.

THIS DUMB MOTHERFUCKER LITERALLY JUST SENT ME LINKS TO BING SEARCHES??????? TYPED "HOW TO CONVERT INVOICE" INTO BING DOT COM. AND SENT IT TO ME

[xumoonhao]

my friends!!! which arrows for the scroll bars do you prefer? i think both are fine but do u like the solid or non solid ones...please do tell me :3

[rigels-nigels]

Girl help I've acquired possibly yet another expensive hobby

[fcntasmas]

microsoft word is obstructing me from unlearning my catholic trauma

[tsvai]

it is so incredibly irritating that in the year of our lord 2023 microsoft still doesn't provide native way to toggle windows key functionality

u have group policy edits which require a restart, or editing ur registry (which can be dicey and also requires a restart).

then there's third party software but that either also edits your registry, or entails something like autohotkey, which some online games consider cheating software and may even take steps to try to detect if it's running on your system lmao.

tears out hair

[hopefulqueer]

Apparently Microsoft Word doesn't like swearing and will give you suggestions on how to rewrite sentences without swearing.

Sometimes, its suggestions are a little more aggressive than one might expect.

[greywolfheirs]

FUCK YOU WORD FUCK YOU STERILIZED INTERNET FUCK YOU CENSORSHIP YOU ARE A TOOL FOR ME TO USE NOT TO PROVIDE OPINIONS AND YOU DON'T KNOW MY FUCKING AUDIENCE

FUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK OOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[isa5670]

This! Yes, go to FOSS!! Learn how to use FOSS, learn how to make FOSS better.

LibreOffice is HUGE and it's GREAT and you don't ever have to touch MS again if you know how to take care of your stuff. STOP DEPENDING ON BIG TECHS!

Also, if you really really need it to be MS Office, just pirate it. Get the 2013 version or something. Go to the internet, learn how to pirate safely. Learn about trustworthy sites, about VPN and the Scene. Learn how to get cracked software. It's not some deepweb, just like put an r/ in front of the 🏴‍☠️ word or something, maybe you'll find something interesting, I don't know. It's a fucking big tech, don't get sad about license stuff or anything. They don't deserve your money, they don't give you an option to opt out, so you do it yourself.

CoPilot in MS Word

I opened Word yesterday to discover that it now contains CoPilot. It follows you as you type and if you have a personal Microsoft 365 account, you can't turn it off. You will be given 60 AI credits per month and you can't opt out of it.

The only way to banish it is to revert to an earlier version of Office. There is lot of conflicting information and overly complex guides out there, so I thought I'd share the simplest way I found.

How to revert back to an old version of Office that does not have CoPilot

This is fairly simple, thankfully, presuming everything is in the default locations. If not you'll need to adjust the below for where you have things saved.

Click the Windows Button and S to bring up the search box, then type cmd. It will bring up the command prompt as an option. Run it as an administrator.

Paste this into the box at the cursor: cd "\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"

Hit Enter

Then paste this into the box at the cursor: officec2rclient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.17726.20160

Hit enter and wait while it downloads and installs.

VERY IMPORTANT. Once it's done, open Word, go to File, Account (bottom left), and you'll see a box on the right that says Microsoft 365 updates. Click the box and change the drop down to Disable Updates.

This will roll you back to build 17726.20160, from July 2024, which does not have CoPilot, and prevent it from being installed.

If you want a different build, you can see them all listed here. You will need to change the 17726.20160 at step 4 to whatever build number you want.

This is not a perfect fix, because while it removes CoPilot, it also stops you receiving security updates and bug fixes.

Switching from Office to LibreOffice

At this point, I'm giving up on Microsoft Office/Word. After trying a few different options, I've switched to LibreOffice.

You can download it here for free: https://www.libreoffice.org/

If you like the look of Word, these tutorials show you how to get that look:

www.howtogeek.com/788591/how-to-make-libreoffice-look-like-microsoft-office/

www.debugpoint.com/libreoffice-like-microsoft-office/

If you've been using Word for awhile, chances are you have a significant custom dictionary. You can add it to LibreOffice following these steps.

First, get your dictionary from Microsoft

Go to Manage your Microsoft 365 account: account.microsoft.com.

One you're logged in, scroll down to Privacy, click it and go to the Privacy dashboard.

Scroll down to Spelling and Text. Click into it and scroll past all the words to download your custom dictionary. It will save it as a CSV file.

Open the file you just downloaded and copy the words.

Open Notepad and paste in the words. Save it as a text file and give it a meaningful name (I went with FromWord).

Next, add it to LibreOffice

Open LibreOffice.

Go to Tools in the menu bar, then Options. It will open a new window.

Find Languages and Locales in the left menu, click it, then click on Writing aids.

You'll see User-defined dictionaries. Click New to the right of the box and give it a meaningful name (mine is FromWord).

Hit Apply, then Okay, then exit LibreOffice.

Open Windows Explorer and go to C:\Users[YourUserName]\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user\wordbook and you will see the new dictionary you created. (If you can't see the AppData folder, you will need to show hidden files by ticking the box in the View menu.)

Open it in Notepad by right clicking and choosing 'open with', then pick Notepad from the options.

Open the text file you created at step 5 in 'get your dictionary from Microsoft', copy the words and paste them into your new custom dictionary UNDER the dotted line.

Save and close.

Reopen LibreOffice. Go to Tools, Options, Languages and Locales, Writing aids and make sure the box next to the new dictionary is ticked.

If you use LIbreOffice on multiple machines, you'll need to do this for each machine.

Please note: this worked for me. If it doesn't work for you, check you've followed each step correctly, and try restarting your computer. If it still doesn't work, I can't provide tech support (sorry).

[2014federalbudget]

Getting so mad about xbox i need to go jack it to calm down

[beatheprincess]

Done w hw idc how bad it looks