Every. Single. Time.

[luciab]

And I do mean EVERY time I try to write more than a few paragraphs in the Word program, I wind up cursing it roundly. And you know, when I used Word Perfect, back in the days before Word was so totally prevalent, that was not the case. I could use columns, tables, outlines, you name it. Theoretically, all those things are possible in Word, too, but it thinks it knows what you want and it keeps changing what you've done to what it thinks it should be. Case in point: I am writing a paper in which I use the spelling "Hawai'i" instead of the more standardized Hawaii. Every time I type that, for some reason Word decides that the last i, after the apostrophe, should be capitalized. Huh? I've tried to tell the spell check that's how I want it, to no avail. What prompted this tirade, you ask? This time I cut and pasted an example that was already corrected-- and when I pasted it in, Word changed the last "i" to a capital.

DAMN, I hate Word.

Comments

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Have you tried going into Tools => Auto Correct menu and either turning it off or gone further => Exceptions? (In upper right part of box)and entering particular spellings into it?

Drove me crazy the way it would automatically capitalize anything after a period because I use period for abbreviations all the time. It was a relief to figure out how to turn it off.

Why Microsquash has to make things so counter-intuitive is beyond me. Gah.

Autocorrect

[aldis-g.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just LOVE the way Word tries to be soooo "helpful". Correcting spelling. Correcting two capital letters (such as 'EE' as the abbreviation for 'employee' - it kept getting changed to 'Ee'). It also has this annoying grammar feature that will let you know (with obnoxious wavy underlines) when you've got a sentence fragment. Which, when you are writing less formally, is not only acceptable but sometimes necessary to the flow of the text. Took me forever to learn how to turn them off (under Tools>Options).