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Re:Pandoc by jrm4 on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:00PM (#39233437)
Word is the worst very popular program for the inverse reason of why Excel is the best; the extent to which a regular user can easily determine and or modify "why something they see on the screen appears the way it does."

In Excel, you click on the cell and see either e.g. the number or formula used to get the result you see.

In Word, well, it's just difficult to figure out exactly why a thing looks the way it does.

Re:Pandoc by sokoloff on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:24PM (#39234628)
Excel's conditional formatting is pretty damn difficult to inspect, IMO.
Re:Pandoc by maxerickson on Saturday February 03, 2024 @09:47PM (#39247057)
You have to find it and turn it on, but there is a tool called "Style Inspector" that shows the applied styles and direct formatting of the selected text (or the location of the cursor).

Can also use control+space to strip off any direct formatting.