Uninitialized Word

[Yossi Kreinin]

MS Word is supposed to support footnotes. By "support", I mean "make it possible 
to insert footnotes and automatically maintain their numbers when more footnotes 
are added/deleted". By "supposed", I mean that there's an "Insert footnotes" dialog.

So I open that dialog, and talk to it, and say that it's OK, and Word says that 
no, it isn't, because it wants "Start At" to be a number from 1 to 30 thousand 
something (no, not 2^15). But... but, um, wait, I said "1" at the "Start At" 
field. I even think that was Word's default.

I kept banging my head into that dialog for about 10 times, and finally it 
worked. The trick was to change some option in the dialog (I think the 
endnotes/footnotes list box), which automatically changed "1" to "0", and I 
changed it back, and then changed the list box back, and it worked. No, I don't 
think that just deleting 1 and typing it back works by itself, I'm pretty sure I 
tried that one. I guess it's unitialized memory or something.

I don't know where I heard it, but I have this impression that most of 
Microsoft's revenues come from it's powerful excrement simulator code-named 
"Microsoft Office". This is discouraging.