Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:08:51 -0000, Tom Austin <taustin> did 
> spake, saying:
> 
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> This probably isn't news to you, but... numbered lists seem to be 
>>> spectacularly broken in Word 2003.
>>>  I mean, sure, they were always a little quirky in Word 97. But now 
>>> I've upgraded to Word 2003, it seems just downright *broken*. I've 
>>> got a couple of pages, each one with a numbered list on it. And I 
>>> point-blank *cannot* make each such list start counting from 1.
>>>  I can make *some* of them count from 1, but then that makes the 
>>> others reset to start counting from where it left off. Or, sometimes, 
>>> makes them start counting from some seemingly arbitrary number like 138.
>>>  What in the name of God...?
>>>  Seriously, is this behaviour "normal" for Word now?
>>
>>
>> It is perfectly expected - there's rational behind how it all works.
>> It's easy once you figure it out.
>> Good luck in doing that ;-)
> 
> Talking to an older guy who despairs of every 'getting' computers and 
> bemoaning his own stupidity I point out he's not stupid it's just that 
> computers tend to use their own rules of logic that he's not familiar 
> with. "In Windows to stop the computer press Start" makes sense if you 
> consider each action has to be initiated and the Start button is(can be) 
> the beginning of all such actions.
> 
> Of course it doesn't help when they break their own rules; consider how 
> windows open in Excel2k compared to Word2k, or in Andy's case they 
> create invisible rules you can't see.
> 

I don't think I made my sarcasm apparent enough.
I have not figured out how to use word myself.

Tom

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