I'd like to see the test people try to do automatic numbering in Word. I'm a long time Word user (like 30 years), and numbering in Word has NEVER worked right.

I'd like to see the test people try to do automatic numbering in Word. I'm a long time Word user (like 30 years), and numbering in Word has NEVER worked right. A few weeks ago, I was tearing my hair out trying to get simple list numbering (1, 2, 3. Some non-list text. 1, 2, 3, 4...). Word seems to think that if you start numbering a list at the beginning of a doc, and then you go back to Body Text (or the horribly named Normal text), and then twenty pages later you start another list, this next list must be a continuation of the first list. What idiot decided that? You have to right-click on the first list item of the second list and do "Restart numbering at 1". And even then I was getting weird numbering of list items, like 1, 2, 5. No visible reason, and very hard to fix. Legal section numbering in Word? Like 1, 1.1., 1.2, 2, 2.1,... Don't even try. It used to be a built-in, but it was so buggy they removed the built-in. There are instructions on the web for how to create such section numbering in Word ex nihilo, but the instructions are so complex that I haven't even tried. (And probably just as buggy as the list numbering.) Both list and legal section numbering work out of the box in LaTeX, of course.