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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1176647" data-attributes="member: 812">Sorry, but it's 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and if it weren't for Word's &quot;Helpful&quot; nature I'd be going home by now. As it is, my massive document is hosed and I have several hours of mind-numbing labour ahead of me.Holy crap I'm irritated.So many of the features in Word seem like good ideas. Styles, for examples. Styles seem like such a great idea. Always indenting your paragraphs a little more than default? Want to use custom bullets in all your lists? Create a custom style and baddaboom baddabing, there you are. Problem is with documents that pass from one user to another. You end up with this incredibly long list of styles and no easy way to determine which ones are getting used where. Or, more to the point, which ones ought to be getting used so that the document not only looks okay, but that its tables and footnotes and glossaries get generated properly.Auto-numbering. I am ready to throw my PC out the window just over the auto-numbering of lists. I'm a pretty strong-willed lad. I can take lots of mental abuse. Vancouver winters don't faze me. The last four seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess didn't faze me. Not even Red Dragon fazed me. But Word auto-numbering is enough to reduce me to helpless tears of impotent rage.Make it stop. Please, God, make it stop.Thanks everyone. I feel better now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1176647, member: 812"] Sorry, but it's 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and if it weren't for Word's "Helpful" nature I'd be going home by now. As it is, my massive document is hosed and I have several hours of mind-numbing labour ahead of me. Holy crap I'm irritated. So many of the features in Word seem like good ideas. Styles, for examples. Styles seem like such a great idea. Always indenting your paragraphs a little more than default? Want to use custom bullets in all your lists? Create a custom style and baddaboom baddabing, there you are. Problem is with documents that pass from one user to another. You end up with this incredibly long list of styles and no easy way to determine which ones are getting used where. Or, more to the point, which ones ought to be getting used so that the document not only looks okay, but that its tables and footnotes and glossaries get generated properly. Auto-numbering. I am ready to throw my PC out the window just over the auto-numbering of lists. I'm a pretty strong-willed lad. I can take lots of mental abuse. Vancouver winters don't faze me. The last four seasons of Xena: Warrior Princess didn't faze me. Not even [i]Red Dragon[/i] fazed me. But Word auto-numbering is enough to reduce me to helpless tears of impotent rage. Make it stop. Please, God, make it stop. Thanks everyone. I feel better now. [/QUOTE]

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