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by Wowfunhappy 964 days ago
Because some applications like MS Word blatantly don't follow Apple design guidelines and it annoys me to no end.
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MS Office doesn't even follow MS Office norms across MS Office applications. Ctrl-Shift-V only works in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It isn't in Outlook and OneNote.

People seem to be under the impression that Ctrl-Shift-V is a Windows feature, when in reality it is part of three specific applications and then the wild-west everywhere else.

My point being: I'm unsurprised MS gets the MacOS norms wrong when they cannot even get it right on Windows.

The overall Windows ecosystem is so inconsistent that I have trouble faulting any individual application for not following "norms", because they can barely even be called norms.

(Don't get me wrong, macOS is slowly getting there too, it gets worse every year.)