Mostly Works

I didn’t want to have to buy Microsoft Word again, so I was looking for something that was free and compatible. I can open all of my old .doc and .docx files. I can even get the layout or “view” to look fairly similar. So overall I’m pretty satisfied. There are just a couple little bugs that are really annoying.

First off, there are no bullets. You cannot make numbered or bulleted lists. You can copy and paste them in, but this only works some of the time and the formatting gets disrupted.

Second off, random pieces of text keep getting temporarily highlighted yellow. This happens every time I toggle between Views. It goes away, but its visually unpleasant.

Third off -and probably the biggest issue with this app- I keep getting large black blocks of color that block the screen. That sounds as odd as it is. I’ll just be typing and then where the margins are there will be two large verticle and one large horizontal black blocks. This happens particularly when I get to another page (i.e. was writing on page 1 and kept writting until page 2 was added) and it does not go away. Toggling between Views, continuing to write, and scrolling around the document sometimes helps, but mostly just moves the black boxes around. The only way to really get rid of them is to switch to Layout View. However, Layout View looks nothing like Microsoft Word, which is part of the reason I liked this app in the first place.

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