A brief history of Word. I found this article when I was looking for answers to common Word problems. For instance, why is it every time I use a style editor, Word insists on bulleting every line of text in my document–and this in several versions of Word, on several different machines?
That’s my biggest gripe about Word, formatting blunders. Back in the old days with Word Perfect you could look at the code and fix the formatting mistakes (just like you can with HTML now), but I don’t think we’ve ever had this capability with Word.
My way around this error is through templates. Set up a document the way you like it, and then when you need to create another similar document, ‘save as’ a new doc name and past all of your new text into that template. Its not a very efficient method, but then, Word isn’t a very efficient word processor.
That’s my humble opinion anyway.
Did you see that Open Office is coming out with a new release? Supposedly with more features to fight with Office. A few years ago it wasn’t robust enough to be serious competition for MS, but I’m hoping it has matured a little and will give them a run for their money, especially since its FREE!