I prefer to write in Markdown, but often I have to write in Microsoft Word, and I hate it, because I find myself devoting significant time to managing Word, rather than writing and making formatting decisions.

This morning, I had a block of text that I wanted to format in bullets. Simple, right? I’ve done it a million times. But Word would not let me format that particular block in bullets, and I spent 15 minutes plinking around in the user interface and doing web searches figuring it out.

This is not at all unusual behavior for Word. There are even memes about it.