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by gindely 2219 days ago
I have trouble saving a word document nowadays, since they close the document when you want to save or print. (You press file, and now the document has been closed and replaced by some menu. I do not know if my actions will apply to the document that I had had open before the program helpfully closed it and makes me feel very uncertain. I do not like to use Word for this reason. It is completely unfathomable to me why of all menus, the File menu is the menu that closes your document. I thought it should be the one to help you interact with it most.)
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The File menu doesn't close the document, it just covers it. That's why it's terrible, and I don't know why they ever introduced it when Word 2007 already had a perfect solution. Word 2007 had a small menu exactly like File Explorer and Paint that was actually usable and didn't change the context.