From: mike 



Are you saying that the best and brightest in Redmond can't even get a text
editor with formatting options to work deterministically?

 /m

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:01:17 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>How complex can Word be?  It's a text editor with some formatting options.
>
>MS Project, otoh, is seriously complex stuff.
>
>On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:00:33 -0500, mike  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:05:08 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>> "mike"  wrote in message
>>> news:iljlu297jg5devsh113tk4irdeek4s9c8o{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>> I had to copy all, paste into notepad to lose all the
formatting info,
>>>> then copy and paste back into a different doc and redo my
formatting.
>>>
>>> So now office treats your settings as suggestions?
>>
>>
>> MS Word internals must have become stunningly complex.   It is to the
>> point where some simple tasks are no longer deterministic in their
>> result.
>>
>>  /m

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