(NOTE: I have not used Word 2010 yet, so these comments are about Word 2007. While there have been some improvements to this dialog box in Word 2007, there’s a lot about this dialog box that just doesn’t work efficiently. And that dialog box alone sucks as far as usability is concerned (‘sucks’ is a technical term!). Most of the documents I’ve been working on for the past two years are long scientific reports - a single document can have hundreds of cross-references to figures, tables, plates, sections, appendices etc.Īs a result I’ve opened the Cross-reference dialog box more times than I can count. While there have been many improvements in Word 2007, there are areas that still have a way to go.
I’ve been getting up close and personal with Word, as evidenced by the number of blog posts I’ve written on Word’s idiosyncrasies. I’ve been using Word since the heady days of Word 2.0, and I’ve been using Word 2003 and more recently Word 2007 day in/day out for the past two years on my current contract.
