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Subject:Re: The case against M$ Word From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:19:09 -0500
Again, your milage may vary. I do know how to set it up right. And
I've set up numerous templates in Word, none basing off of the Normal
tag, and still numbering and bullets are problematic at best.
Scott
At 8:45 PM +0000 10/29/08, Jonathan West wrote:
>2008/10/29 Ed <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>:
>> I say that corruption of Word templates, inconsistent and frustrating
>> auto-numbering and bullets are two good places to start.
>
>I'm afraid that is not so. if you know how to do it right (i.e. set up
>bullets & numbering as part of styles) you can get perfectly stable
>and consistent numbering, in documents running to a thousand pages or
>more.
>
>Regards
>Jonathan West
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