{"id":1739,"date":"2025-02-25T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatkeith.com\/articles\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:24:00","slug":"microsoft-word-is-the-worst-writing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatkeith.com\/articles\/microsoft-word-is-the-worst-writing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Word is the worst writing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hands up who uses Microsoft Word?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hands up who *likes* Microsoft Word?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked those two questions in a talk I gave at The Future Of Text symposium in October. Almost the entire audience raised their hands at the first question, but hardly anyone did at the second. I wasn\u2019t at all surprised. In fact, the rest of my talk would have been slightly scuppered if everyone had kept their hands up, but I knew that wasn\u2019t going to happen. Word is ubiquitous; it is the most widely-used word processing tool by a huge margin. In the business world the Office triumvirate of Word, Excel and PowerPoint utterly dominate. But people use Word \u2013 let\u2019s focus on that, although a fair bit of my beef covers the full software suite \u2013 mainly because other people use it, not because it is, in itself, a great bit of software. It isn\u2019t loved, and it is rarely even actually liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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