Microsoft Word

I hate Microsoft Word. It is one of the few things that can send me into a gibbering, cussing rage in only a few minutes. I'm usually a pretty laid back guy, but Word turns me into a spitting, screaming mess. I think that a large part of the reason I go t out of Technical Writing and into Safety Engineering and Industrial Hygiene is WORD. I'm glad, I like my job now. But I can't get away from Word. Why are there 5,000 styles in every document, even ones that are all plain text with no formatting? Why can I intuitively make a list and then on item 14, suddenly it starts a new list, or becomes unnumbered, or goes to FREAKING ROMAN NUMERALS??? Why, if I put out the same document every month or week, does that document eventually become corrupted and implode? Why do my text boxes cover up text? Why in the name of all that is good would I want to put a text box on top of text I've already written? Why does a document passed around a department for comments come back looking like a Tarintino move edited by monkey with ADD?

Biggest question: Why have these SAME FREAKING PROBLEMS been in Word for the last 8 FREAKING YEARS!!!???!!!

Please, someone make something better. I will become your PR person. Heck, I'll become your prophet, spreading the news of the glorious triumph of software that works over a feature rich, buggy pile o' crap. Ok, I'm done venting. Back to work. Back to Word.