Poor Mojo's Two Minute Hate

This Writing Life | Why I hate Microsoft Word | by Ian Hocking
My novel, Proper Job, is a nice, single Word document (not too big; only a meg or so) with carefully applied styles, continuous section breaks, and chapter numbering that automatically updates, and has a neat list of chapters in the table of contents. In other words, this is not an exceptional document. Its complexity should be well within the grasp of Word.

Well, m'friends, it ain't. Word has randomly removed line breaks between sections (those blank lines that indicate a change of viewpoint).

Today, while removing some snippets of Proper Job to put on the new PJ page, I noticed that - steady, Ian; deep breaths - I can't describe how angry this makes me, but will attempt to do so. I put those frickin' breaks between the sections because, otherwise, the ever-lovin' reader will get confused when one section appears to run into the other. Not only that, but, dammit, I spent more than a week proofreading the entire novel and, though typos will doubtless remain, any agent/publisher looking at the manuscript will think, 'Tcha! He hasn't even read it - and this guy wants to be taken seriously as a writer?