@topspin said in WTF Office?:
how it seems to anchor formatting at line/paragraph endings.
It seems to do that because it does do that. Well, for paragraph-level formatting(1). Turn on the option to show paragraph markers and you'll be able to see the [REDACTED] things and know easily whether you've selected one (or more) of them.
(1) Character-level formatting (bold, superscript, font, etc.) is stored on the characters themselves, more or less.
@topspin said in WTF Office?:
Look, if I wanted to include the line break, I’d shift-down.
I wouldn't, because, as a universal rule, that causes problems when you start half-way along the line (because shift-down will select the second half of this line and the first half of the line below.
@topspin said in WTF Office?:
This wreaks all kinds of havoc when dealing with bulleted lists, etc. Delete (or cut) some text, it completely fucks up the surrounding text and formatting.
Mostly, it messes those things up only if you fail to bear in mind the paragraph markers. Mostly...