re: Upgrading from MS Office 2003 to 2016?

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Hope you like Calibri*

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You can change the default template and make Calibri go away forever, as well as the retarded spacing (seriously, 8 pt. paragraph space + 1.08 line spacing for a default style?). I also changed the Ctrl+F shortcut to bring up the full search menu.

Other than those two shitty interface/design decisions, I prefer working in 2013/2016. Office Mix is cool, too.

The backwards compatibility in Word is frustrating, though. If you have complicated documents with lots of design elements (and particularly when pagination is important), you need to make sure you're working from a file that's been saved to be compatible with previous versions of Word. I'm not even talking 97-03. A design-heavy Word document created in Word 2013 will look slightly different in Word 2010 if you didn't layout the document in compatibility mode, and it can push entire tables and graphics onto new pages simply because default cell padding is different.