Easy Fixes/Upgrades Surprisingly Not Done Yet
Hello - Not a complaint--suggestions--love Word and have been using it since Day 1 when WYSIWYG was not even a thing, yet. As a professional writer, figure it is a responsibility to state the obvious, after giving them decades to sort this out. Here are pet peeves that are a surprisingly large wasters of time and should be quick fixes. Am sure others have commented on them, just adding my vote. 1. In multipage view, Page 1 [Recto] needs to be on the right side. Adding a blank page at beginning is a kludge and throws off the mirror margins, plus need to remember to remove the page for publishing. Just give a "Book View Multipage" or checkbox optional mode. Throws off review of a book more than non-book writer sorts might suspect. 2. Headers & footers get confused and mangled in unpredictable and irrational ways. Unspecified buggery is at work in them. Please fix. Probably some 5% of my editing time involves checking and re-checking every blessed header and footer after every editing pass to see how they got screwed up. Screw-ups generally involve information from one section leaking into another, including 1st page headers where did not used to be any, wrong chapter headings, etc. Yes, attempts to avoid this by tediously unlinking *all* the headers [and sacrificing that functionality, still does not fix it. Yes, have researched and tried various "fixes." Ditto for footers where the page numbering gets confused or leaks from one section to another [such as from Chap 1 to front matter] or number formatting changes, etc. This is a huge productivity waster and main motivation for me taking the time to write. Literally wastes tens of hours for me over the time developing a book. 3. For some unknown reasons, Word likes to seemingly occasionally change "Next Page" section breaks into "Odd Page" or "Even Page"...which magically inserts a blank page upon printing [otherwise not visible]. Bonus Points: Would be great to also have a "Last Page" section header. That way, at end of chapters one can have no header [for example] without having to make the last page its own section and manually break a paragraph to get it properly justified at last word/first word.