"I'm glad you completed your manual without Word choking.

Thanks. Actually I've done several manuals in Word; the one I mentioned was just the biggest with the most stuff in it.

"You could have hit the bug where all the pictures disappear to be replaced with red X's"

Never heard of or seen that bug. But then, I usually embed. If you link to a graphic, then move, delete, or rename it, you'll probably get the red Xs.

"Did you use the master/child documents feature?"

No.

"I'll also assume that your diagrams didn't sometimes disappear completely when you tried to move them around on the page, as mine often do in my fully updated copy of Word 2003."

You are correct, I never had that problem. But then, I never used Word 2003. Maybe it's a new bug or it could be a problem with your vid card/driver.

"Were you managing multiple, hierarchical numbered and bulleted lists? I find that it's still a bit like herding cats,"

Quite a few actually. It was quite easy.

"since Word now offers to automatically repair document corruption, does the fact that it's corrupting its own data in the first place still count as a bug?"

Word has had that feature for a while now. My experience was Word wasn't corrupting files. The only times I needed it were when the machine was somehow rebooted or turned off while working in Word. (I worked in a crowded environment).

And please, again, in my original post I was not comparing any software with Poser. I was responding to post #7, in which the person asked for "software." He didn't say "3d software," he said "software." I simply answered his request. BTW, there are some 3d packages in my list.

Message edited on: 01/11/2006 18:01