So I am the occasional typist. I pop open Microsoft Word 2007 when I need to type something fast and need to correct it. The grammar check and spell check is pretty darn good…. no complaints there. But today I needed a little something more involved. I was created a 3-4 page report, with nested list number list and bullet list. I tried for about 30 minutes a simple example to get everything to align correctly. But I simply couldn’t. Its probably due to the fact that I have not studied the new interface, but well to me it seems that it should be pretty intuitive. The goal was something like this.
1.0 Main
1.1 submain
*
*
2.0
What a pain, just to get the simple thing. I would click multi-list button and i would be the first item. If i gave it heading 1, the number would dissapear. For the sub items I tried looking for heading 2. But no where to be find. I didn’t want the identation for subitems… no where to be found(probably cuz i don’t know where to look)… i wasted too much time.. I admit I was doing it in word because the different styles look good, but i now I just wanted it to work. I gave up.
I soon pop up. Openoffice writer. Quickly I had a multi-list. I quickly realized that the headings(heading1,heading2, etc) correspond to items on multist. So all I had to do was type something and give it heading 1 or heading 2 and it would automatically know what number to put beside it. also I found the ‘bullets and numbering’ button and wow. Everything is there. Level by level. You click on level one, you can adjust the numbering scheme, the indentation, everything .wow. Click on level two and do the same. I wanted level 1 and level 2 to look exactly the same, I just changed heading 2 to look like heading 1. What a freeze. Took me 15 minutes to get the hang out it.. And now I have a 4 page document looking good… and i just tested the table of contents feature… and wow. Automatically created it. 
So Word is good… but when you on the run and need to create somethign fast with multilist… somethign simpler like Open office write could save tons of head aches and hassle.