damselfish | (no subject)

Discovered a fun thing with the new Word. Or it could just be Mac's version of Word.

I opened up my briefs for property and all the formatting had gone to pot. All the case names were in Cambria font, in 18, inexplicably blue, left aligned rather than centered, and the underlining had turned into one of those infernal border lines that never ever go away. The only way to get rid of them is to C&P all the nearby text into a plain text environment, then C&P it into a different document. The old document can only be deleted. The line will only shift up and down and appear in the middle of your text. It is an old nemesis of mine, a foe I had not seen in many years and thought long defeated on account of being ruddy stupid. No, apparently it is still alive and kicking.

Some other sections were turned into comic sans, and blue, and bolded. My hanging indents were all over the place, like drunks leaning over the balcony railing and puking ugly fonts all over the place.

I turned off the autoformatting for borders, which should fix the line problem, but I can't figure out how the rest of that nonsense happened, or why, or how to keep it from happening again. There is no dialogue box for "please don't randomly change my nicely formatted documents into silliness on a whim."

Honestly. Blue? Comic sans? I can almost see the Cambria change to the case names because that's Mac's default font, but... comic sans? What a slap in the face.

The idea that it might just rearrange all my cases for shits and giggles is actually rather terrifying. Seems I'll have to back everything up on my PC every day until I figure out what voodoo caused that to happen. It isn't like I was doing any weird formatting. Just TNR 12, sometimes centered, sometimes not.