Word Processors with Attitude

My better half is struggling with automatic numbering in Word. She finally figured a way to turn off the unwanted tabbing/numbering: use a colon after the number.

The software obviously knows whats best for you and insists that you get it good and hard. She says it is a Madison liberal program.

I know there's a way to turn off that nonsense, and probably a way to make Word do something sensible, but it takes time to go look it up, time that we'd both rather use doing the real work we're sitting here to complete.