RE: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

["Karen Murri" <kmurri -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Another good source to help you understand Word's mysterious ways is the
Word MVP site:

http://word.mvps.org/

-Karen

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Nancy Allison
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:37 AM
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Subject: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

why does he make us suffer!

Please, please tell me what resources you have found to help you struggle
with Word as a technical writing tool! Is "Word Annoyances" any good?

I've spent the last half hour trying to get a picture from jumping above and
below the text. I've gone all the way in the Advanced window of the Picture
Layout tab . . . someetimes I get a solution to work temporarily, but, for
example, when I resized the correctly-placed picture (making it 5% smaller),
it jhumped to the top of the page again. 
Also, after I've set all the layout options as I want them, when the picture
jumps around I find that the "below line" field has been reset to the
helpful -3.82 value. Yes, the picture is placed -3.82 inches below the line.

I've looked through the Techwr-l archives. [By the way, could we pass the
hat and get a more powerful search utility for the Archives? ] Surely this
topic has been handled again and again, and yet "positioning pictures" and
"word pictures" and just plain "pictures" have not turned up my particular
problem.

At this point, my problem (I think) is that the software keeps resetting to
the truly weird "-3.82" and, so far as I can tell, is doing other,
nonidentifiable buggy things as well.

Anyway, what reference materials do you keep on hand, fellow Word wranglers?
(And, no, sadly, the tiny startup I'm working for is not interested in
acquiring Framemaker.)

Why is Microsoft permitted to put out this crap decade after decade? 
Bill, you're needed back at the office (assuming you give a damn).

--Nancy

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