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Like the undo button, sort of. You press it. It looks in the undo history for the last autoformat that Word performed. And it makes sure that Word never ever does it again.
Invented by my dad.
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+ I don't really like the autoformatting in word. Well not for some words |
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I hate it when a computer/program assumes that I want this or that done to my text. It makes creativity become uniform. Can't some of us want to do things differently? +++ |
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Make them into stickers, and let the world know. |
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I always wanted a big, red, 3-some inch diameter button placed right on top of my monitor that would cancel what ever program I accidently clicked on, and when I hit it, alarms would sound and strobe lights go off. |
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sounds very freudian, dickity. <snigger> |
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There are not enough croissants for this idea. Nowhere near enough. |
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"what are you doing dave ?"
"im making sure you never do that again,hal, by pressing this button"
"im afarid i cant let you do that dave" |
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Why doesn't someone write a macro which instantly disables all the "Stupid" functions in Word? (e.g. Autoformat As You Type; Automatically Update Document Styles; Automatically flag gramatically correct sentences; Randomly Choose Bullet Shape Every Time; etc.) ? |
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I'm sure such a macro would be easy for a pro to write; and if it changed Word into WorkingWord, it would be worth a fortune! |
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EMACS has beautiful command:
disable-command. |
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If you invoke that command it gives you different options. |
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1. try only once
2. try an enable command
3. try it and enable all commands
4. Do nothing. |
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It is easy enough, once you know where to look, to turn off the auto-formatting options in Word. But I think this would be a useful addition. |
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What does this do that CTRL-Z doesn't do? Or does Word secretly format your text files when you're not editing them? |
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Surely it's better to disable auto-formatting up front than to have to ding them on a case-by-case basis as necessitated by the author's approach. |
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Having said that, I do think there's a place in Word for one all-together auto-format tab where you can uncheck everything in one swell foop. |
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One of these isn't standard on your pc? We all got one. |
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Awesome idea. Actually, along the same lines, I'd like a button that just disables the functions for, say, 10 seconds. I can't say how many times my blood pressure has shot up dangerously when Word decided repeatedly that I really *don't* want to capitalize my word like that, or that the abbreviation of our client's company name should be shuffled a little, just for fun... |
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Of course, teh auto-correction caN COME IN HANDY SOMETIMES. |
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I write a little poetry now and then.
I DO NOT want a capital letter at the beginning of every line (plenty expletives deleted!).
I went to the university for ...well, I won't say how long, that's a bit embarrassing, but I went plenty ... just so I could start a damned sentence with 'and', or write an elliptical sentence! I don't need some program telling me I've just written an incomplete sentence.
I would love a botton like that. Maybe one that would freeze all computer activity except what the user punches in for the next 60 seconds. |
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Start->Settings->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Microsoft Word->Remove |
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I not push button. Still, I happy. (Oddly, Word had no problem with these statements.) |
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[Id] "It looks like you're writing Haiku. Would you like help with this format?" |
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MS write pretty.
Cherry blossoms, me happy,
Me not push button.
—by Microsoft Word |
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Like [alx] said in a handy step by step guide; Delete Word, get some decent open source programs, change them at your will. Why pay hundreds for a defective OS when you can get better ones for free? |
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You don't have to stick with the crap that comes with Windows. |
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Although, If you are a purist you'd probably prefer notepad.exe: no frills, no suprises, holiness of thought. >>>WYSIWYG<<< |
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Even better, have all new humans fitted with it straight from the factory and retrofit all models currently in the field. + I say, +!!! |
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How about this. You learn how to use the tool. "Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't hit this window with this hammer..." |
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//I always wanted a big, red, 3-some // |
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would it work for the "spellcheck-as-
you-go" thing? once I tell Word that I
want Halfbakery to be a word, it sure as
hell better listen! (+) |
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On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect, and then click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Select or clear the options you want. Note: To turn off automatic formatting completely, clear all the options. |
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On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect. Select or clear the Replace text as you type check box. |
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On the Insert menu, point to AutoText, and then click AutoText. Select or clear the Show AutoComplete tip for Auto Text and dates check box. |
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but surely this idea is not about turning off autocorrect/autoformatting but about making sure it doesn't repeat annoying corrections. |
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well turning them off, i'm sure you could write much better. Microsoft Word by default, puts a capital letter and a period in the line of text proceeding a bullet. |
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Words in bullet form are NOT sentences, and therefore should not have a period or a capital letter at the beginning. Its *cough* american. |
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It'd be nice, of course, if Word just didn't exist, but this is the next-best thing. |
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"What is up my home-friensd? I liek to think of things!" |
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Love it - especially for word. I remember the painful process of formatting my thesis on word. Brrrr! |
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I try to write most things in notepad first, and then only transfer the text to word for formatting and spellchecking. If you paste the stuff in, I don't think it autoformats nor does it try to fix common mispeelings, it just underlines them in wavy red lines. |
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I went into autoformat on my flatmate's computer just before he had to hand in his thesis and told it to replace the word 'results' with the word 'pants'. Childish, but still funny.
(I did point it out to him before he handed it in.) |
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Incidentally, does anyone know a decent program for doing reports, etc., with lots of pictures in? Word's bizarre attitude to placing pictures drives me up the wall, and the other packages I've used (Illustrator, front page, etc.) are all set up for laying out single pages. |
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Should we also add this button to childrens' clothes? |
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You could try quark or pagemaker. |
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I like this, but it is baked in newer versions. There is a little button that pops up and disables the feature that just happened. |
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I would also like some sort of wi-fi technology embedded in a small badge that I could wear. It would contact any machine within 50m and tell it to disable the STUPID STUPID BLOODY OFFICE ASSISTANT!!! That would prevent me from losing the bap every time I write "Dear Xxxx" on a newly built machine and some overexcited paper clip comes over all helpful at me. |
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Yes, but imagine how different the world might be had it not been for Word's wonderful habit of fancy-shmantzy-formatting ordinal numbers like 1st (but not lst). |
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