Keep in mind that the author is also talking as a consumer of word documents that someone else wrote. I would wager that he knows about these various options bu

Keep in mind that the author is also talking as a consumer of word documents that someone else wrote. I would wager that he knows about these various options but that doesn't mean that the people whose documents he is consuming know about them. His rant is partly centered around the fact that word's default settings are poorly chosen for someone in the digital publishing world.