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> Then mail merge - and all of the proper substitutions are done. I'll assume
> that anybody still interested can look up how to use the 
> mail merge as well as I  could explain it.  Constructing the list of
> references may be more or less difficult than numbering the paper
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> by hand would have been.

Actually, you could probably use the automatic table-of-contents
generation feature to extract your mail-merge information.  Then copy
the table of contents to a separate file, use a substitution or two to
format it as a single comma-separated list, and enter the appropriate
numbers / letters.  This would automate the entire process (in a
clumsy way).

Tonight I just got really sick of this new shortcoming in MS-Word.  So
far, we have:
  (a) Lousy-looking equations
  (b) Inability to justify text containing fractional widths
  (c) Lack of automatic numbering of figures or references

One or two more serious flaws and I'll switch to TeX, I swear.  It's
so stupid.  MS-Word already has the basic equipment for automatic
numbering (hidden text).  Users should be able to type phrases like
	<<id1>>
	^^^^^^^
in hidden text, which word would glady replace by 
	<<id1A>>
	^^^^^ ^^ 
which would show the label "A" on the screen, and facilitate
renumbering (renumber type-1 phrases using capital alphabetics) in the
future.  That way, you could have an arbitrary number of labelings,
and could always renumber in a different way.  This would be oodles
simpler than the current, complicated "line numbering" and "paragraph
numbering" abortions in ms-word.

Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
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