[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]
“I think that software should do what I tell it to do. If I
insert a picture of my cat doing its happy dance, I want that
picture to show up in the document. If I create a formula
multiplying the number of times I’ve seen Lord of the Rings by 3, I
want the right answer. And when I create lists, whether it’s a list
of all my shoes or a five levels deep reference guide to
troubleshooting the Sphereon 4500 switch, I want the formatting
that I applied to show up correctly. I certainly don’t want a list
formatted with styles I never created and never asked to be
applied.“Unfortunately, that’s pretty much what I get when using lists
in Word. Even though I have 15 years of experience in the technical
writing and desktop publishing, lists in Word drive me crazy with
the spontaneous formatting. It’s alarming…”