I hate the UI design idea that some types of common pop-up window should become the sole top-level element across the entire program that creaetd it. It should instead be contained within whatever window/tab it originated. (There might be an exception, but I can't think of one at the moment.)
Could be worse you could be using the completely unusable utter piece of shit that is Open|Libre office. Wow now that really is a sack of shit and screws any productivity when doing documentation type things.
How is that: I imported a simple Excel diagram, tried to resize it - and Word crashed. No problem, Word creates backups, right? Only problem: When Word opens the backup... it crashes. And suddenly I didn't have any working version of the file anymore...
(git helped me out, thankfully, but I don't know how my parents would have handled that...)
You're being down voted because you overlooked the fact that the parent poster is unable to open the document at all. We're not talking lost changes here, we're talking about not being able to open the document at all, so not only did he lose the changes since the last save, but he had to go to a backup (git version) and recover the document from there.
My biggest Word WTF was when I had edited about a page of text, and went away for a new cup of coffee. When I came back the document was only showing Wingdings-like characters. And when I press the cursor keys it crashed.
After that time I always go into the settings and force it to make proper .bak files.
I've seen the sales people periodically manually save to a separate .rtf because Word crashes and trashes the document and the auto-save so often for them.
After decades and zillions of money, why isn't that piece of software amongst the most solid software there is?
I believe this trick only works if you know apriori that you want a new window; not after the fact.
What infuriates me is the dual-level modal. You are in a document. You do something that opens a dialog (call it D1), it opens another dialog (D2) for whatever reason. You want to see something behind D1. You CANNOT MOVE IT.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 40.9 ms ] threadHow is that: I imported a simple Excel diagram, tried to resize it - and Word crashed. No problem, Word creates backups, right? Only problem: When Word opens the backup... it crashes. And suddenly I didn't have any working version of the file anymore...
(git helped me out, thankfully, but I don't know how my parents would have handled that...)
After that time I always go into the settings and force it to make proper .bak files.
I've seen the sales people periodically manually save to a separate .rtf because Word crashes and trashes the document and the auto-save so often for them.
After decades and zillions of money, why isn't that piece of software amongst the most solid software there is?
Go to 'Window' -> 'New Window'
Open as many Windows and Modal Dialogs you want.
And as I can see from all the jokers who agree with your opinion - none of them actually 'tried' to find a solution either.
What infuriates me is the dual-level modal. You are in a document. You do something that opens a dialog (call it D1), it opens another dialog (D2) for whatever reason. You want to see something behind D1. You CANNOT MOVE IT.