If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

[Nancy Allison]

why does he make us suffer!

Please, please tell me what resources you have found to help you 
struggle with Word as a technical writing tool! Is "Word Annoyances" any 
good?

I've spent the last half hour trying to get a picture from jumping above 
and below the text. I've gone all the way in the Advanced window of the 
Picture Layout tab . . . someetimes I get a solution to work 
temporarily, but, for example, when I resized the correctly-placed 
picture (making it 5% smaller), it jhumped to the top of the page again. 
Also, after I've set all the layout options as I want them, when the 
picture jumps around I find that the "below line" field has been reset 
to the helpful -3.82 value. Yes, the picture is placed -3.82 inches 
below the line.

I've looked through the Techwr-l archives. [By the way, could we pass 
the hat and get a more powerful search utility for the Archives? ] 
Surely this topic has been handled again and again, and yet "positioning 
pictures" and "word pictures" and just plain "pictures" have not turned 
up my particular problem.

At this point, my problem (I think) is that the software keeps resetting 
to the truly weird "-3.82" and, so far as I can tell, is doing other, 
nonidentifiable buggy things as well.

Anyway, what reference materials do you keep on hand, fellow Word 
wranglers? (And, no, sadly, the tiny startup I'm working for is not 
interested in acquiring Framemaker.)

Why is Microsoft permitted to put out this crap decade after decade? 
Bill, you're needed back at the office (assuming you give a damn).

--Nancy