chrystalline

Dear Old Bill,

The tracking changes feature in MSWord STINKS! If the purpose is to track changes, then the tracking and display options should be set at file creation and then LOCKED - the file should look the same on every machine! That’s the whole POINT! ARGH!!!!

Also, if you’re going to allow Roman Numerals in the footer’s page numbering, then you’ve got to support them in the printer dialog box for page ranges. Otherwise you have a certain section of pages that cannot be printed in ranges, because if the document thinks pages i - xviii are pages 1 - 18, then when you try to print the actual pages 1 - 18, you’re going to get i - xviii. Then too, if you’re going to have it go by the absolute numbering, stick with that instead of switching back and forth. If I want to print pages 22 - 28, and the document thinks they’re pages 42 - 48, then it should follow the same logic as the Roman Numeral pages. Instead, it switches to the page numbers and ignores the document’s numbering, which means that the first twenty pages after the twenty Roman Numeral pages can only be printed if you a) print the entire document at once, or b) print each page one at a time with the Current Page print option. That stinks.

No love,
Me

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