Patrick,
I'm a technical editor using Word 2002 XP. I have the same problems as Word
Hater. I've shut off all the automatic formatting and Word still insists on
applying its styles instead of mine. For example, I have a 132-page document
containing numbered headings. Once all my styles are applied, and the
document is the way I want it, I saved it. When I opened it up the next day,
all the numbered headings were unnumbered! I have several more documents
that need formatting and my whole team is experiencing the same thing. We've
bought four books to help us solve the "style" problem, but to no avail.
What are we missing?
"Patrick Schmid" wrote:
Buy a good book and learn how to use Word. Or use OpenOffice if you
don't want to use Word and fight with the indentations there. It's not
going to be any easier.
Patrick Schmid
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"Word Hater" Word wrote in message
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Im a software developer and the hardest part of my job is using MS Word to
write all my documentation. Im CONSTANTLY battling with indentations,
numbering and tables that have a mind of their own and are so
counter-intuitive it makes me want to eat my computer. I have handed in
documents to my projects managers in the past which they returned to me
complaining about the formatting. I have simply replied to them that I refuse
to waste my time using such a badly written bit of software and they can do
the bloody indentations themselves. Youd think after a million versions MS
would have fixed it. Oh no.
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