Typing in text blocks a total mess
New Mathcad 10 user trying to get familiar with the program before I need to use it for a new job, and I am getting frustrated with how difficult this program is to work with.
Supposedly Mathcad is designed to be able to do a mix of text and math, but I am finding that writing text is agonizingly difficult and buggy.
In text blocks, it's manageable, but tabs don't line up, it's difficult to stop underlines and bold (4/5 times can't just ctrl+u to stop underlining, have to keep typing then go back and highlight the text and ctrl+u to remove the underline. Same with bold), and it likes to add and remove new lines seemingly at random.
In text boxes, it's almost impossible.
- I typed an X and it jumped down to the next line all on its own
- It did this again when I did a special character like ฮฆ or ยต
- I typed something on one line in plain text, I hit enter and start typing on the next line and its suddenly now underlining as I type, though none of the other text in the box is (or ever was) underlined.
- I hit tab between a couple words to give space for an image and it split the text on the line into 2 lines with 4 or 5 tabs, instead of the 1 I typed
- I did a text box before a text block, and then later added lines to the text box, expecting it to push the block after it down with each line, instead it just runs over it (maybe this is a setting, maybe this is a "feature", but i feel like, unless the text box is specifically placed over a text block, adding lines to a text box should move the block after it down).
This is a pretty expensive program to be this buggy and difficult to use.
The math portion is great (though so far I've only done simple algebra), but writing any amount of text seems like text was added to this program as an afterthought, and has not been tested at all.
I've used it all of maybe 5 hours and could log 20 different items that I would consider bugs (though a couple of them could be a weird default setting somewhere [not sure why a creating a new line with each special character typed would be a default setting], but I haven't been able to find many settings, the text function of this program seems very rudimentary).