Comments on: MS Word footers are buggy

By: Snowed

Snowed — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:16:46 +0000

I hate Word. Have spent an hour trying to create two sections, numbering only the second section. Where is the f***ing header “toolbar” ? I pick centered page numbering and it won’t center. And Word quits on me constantly. I hate it. Did I mention I hate it? When I have a choice, I use anything else – Mellel, TextEdit, fingerpainting. Then paste into Word for people who insist on receiving Word docs. Word turns writing into meta-writing.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:41:17 +0000

Just an update — I’ve had another instance of this, where using the menus didn’t help either. It was definitely linked to their being sections with varying numbers of columns. In some cases the footers appeared attached to individual sections.

I ended up copying blocks of text onto new copies of the page, while checking the footers for the correct date, as I went.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 06:52:54 +0000

Well yeah if it works the way you’re doing it. Though my impression is that word can be a bit fiddly for positioning things.

But in the end license fees kill, particularly when it’s something you’re doing voluntarily. Though InDesign and Quark are both fairly intuitive and still it’d take a bit of effort to lay the whole thing out again.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:20:49 +0000

Ideal? Probably not. But would it be worth my while to find, buy and learn another tool, such as Pagemaker, Quark or Publisher to do it on? Somehow I doubt it!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:05:33 +0000

Not entirely related because this isn’t a layout bug though don’t know how you can manage with Word for this kind of thing!

All software has its bugs but I can’t imagine that a word processor such as MS Word would be ideal for page layout.