Seriously? You're asking me to defend some barely relevant quirk of functionality from Office XP, which came out nine years ago, and Office 2003, which came ou

Seriously? You're asking me to defend some barely relevant quirk of functionality from Office XP, which came out nine years ago, and Office 2003, which came out seven years ago? I can tell you what was considered important on the Word web app, which is brand new and is what I worked on. I have no insight into the design process on older versions.