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rqtwteye ◴[01 Apr 25 23:40 UTC] No.43552418[source]▶

I am becoming very nostalgic about word processors before around 2003. Back then, they were very predictable, made sense to me, and had all the features I wanted. The latest Word version makes all kinds of wacky choices for formatting, and I can't figure out how to fix them. Numbering is off, and formatting often is totally unpredictable. Not sure what's going on, but I really want Word 2000 back.

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1. mobilio ◴[02 Apr 25 00:20 UTC] No.43552610[source]▶

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It's even worse than you expect!

Around 2000 i found that if you have document with header/footer with auto page numbers and merge it with few pages from other document also with page numbers you get huge mess in numbering.

Some weird happens like: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (here is doc N:2) 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, (continues doc N:1) 7, 8, 9

And you can't just reset page numbers, because you need to be on inserted page and there to do reset.

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