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RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?
Subject:RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word? From:"Margaret Secara" <margaret -dot- secara -at- alphather -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 May 2002 08:57:24 -0700
>>> David Farbey <David -dot- Farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com> Tuesday, May 28, 2002 >>>
Someone already mentioned "assumed formatting". I characterize this as
old-fashioned "Soviet-style" behaviour. The "authorities" - in this case the
Word programmers - know what you need better than you know yourself! This
may be helpful for some casual or routine users, but I find it highly
frustrating for more professional use.
>>>>>
As someone mentioned, this (and many other "soviet" auto-options) can be turned off. The problem is that the most of these things are turned ON by default. You have to take the time to customize anything; I always start by assuming that whatever it does, I can change. And I start with Tools Options and Tools AutoCorrect.
Maggie Secara
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