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Originally Posted by BeerStud
You would probably be surprised to learn that it is being used more and more, and by college students who are fed up with the limitation of MS Word, or its sudden tendency to renumber lists, or change list orders for no apparent reason.
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Invariably the fault lies between the seat & keyboard, in the form of users who haven't a clue how to use Word properly.
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Originally Posted by BeerStud
It is a documented fact that documents over 100 pages become a nightmare to handle in Word. Formatting suddenly starts changing for no apparent reason.
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Documented where???
Having used Word for over 25 years, in most of its iterations, including for writing/editing many documents with 100+ pages and some very complex documents with well over
500 pages, I can assure you the behaviour you describe is far from typical and not something one who uses Word properly is likely to encounter. Unpredictable formatting usually afflicts users who don't take the time to learn even the basics of how to use Word (especially templates and Styles) and, instead, override the formats of whatever Styles they're using to make them look like something else. That path eventually (often in very short order) ends in grief...
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Originally Posted by BeerStud
Formatting suddenly starts changing for no apparent reason. On one recent document I was working on, I added a numbered item in a list to the middle of the list. Suddenly Word totally renumbered the document and changed the numbering from 2, 3, 4, etcetera to 102, 103, 104, bla - bla -bla.
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As I said:
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Invariably the fault lies between the seat & keyboard
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If the best you can do is rant instead of learning to use Word, go away and use something else.