[LMB] AKICOTL: OT: Word help, pretty please???

[Elizabeth McCoy]

At 10:49 AM +0200 7/11/07, Rachel Ganz wrote:

>If you go into the Tools>Autocorrect Options.... dialog, you can see all the things that Word will do without you asking. If you uncheck the "Replace text as you type" in the Autocorrect tab, and uncheck whatever you find problematic in the Autoformat tab, you may be able to get Word to behave less like a stroppy secretary and more like an obedient machine.

Yes. I, personally, have to beat every version of Word into submission
whenever I have a new one. (This provides a huge disincentive to upgrade,
so I don't intend to do so anymore.) I don't mind if it fixes my typos, 
but I do have to turn everything else off. And since I also turn off
smartquotes, I must then go and fix every autocorrrect-listed word that 
has an apostrophe in it, because otherwise it will use a smartquote version
and not a straight version.

Word can be very useful, but the way they load the defaults? It only becomes
useful once it has been beaten down and told to call me "Mistress."
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