Posted: 6/28/2004 5:05:13 AM EDT
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This used to be a great program, but now i have some new fucked up version. It thinks it's smarter than me, thinks it can anticipate what I want, but it's always WRONG. I don't want each paragraph numbered just because I number the first one. I don't want these things tabbed over just because I tabbed the last ones.... Is there a way to turn off all this automatic bullshit and let me just type how I want to and make my document look the way I want it to? |
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I feel the same way about the default configuration of recent versions of Word. Go into Tools/Options and Tools/Customize and explore every tab, every check box, until it works the way you want it to. The Help is better than ever in case you have problems finding stuff. It made me absolutely berzerk at my last job that Word was the default text editor for the Outlook email client. Good hunting! |
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A lot of those things are in AutoCorrect too : tool --> AutoCorrect Options -->AutoFormat As You Type that's where the number lists and stuff come from. I like word, and I consider myself pretty knowledgable about it, but I'm probably still only using 25% of it's capabilities. Then I realise the rest of Office is just as bloated, and I realise why I keep needing new Hard Drives. /Phil |
Finishing my master's last year about killed me with Word. Luckily, my wife is pretty knowledgeable about it and saved me time and time again. I agree, the anticipating what I want really pisses me off. It also seems when I want it to anticipate for me, it won't.
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Here's one that kills me and I can't figure out how to make it stop: I use outlook and excel. Anytime someone sends an excel file as an attachment to an email, and I open the file by double clicking on it right in outlook, excel adds this damn "reviewing" toolbar to the top of the screen. I never use the damn thing, and it fucks up the layout of my customized buttons. I can't figure out how to get it to just open the damn excel file attachment without changing the fricken settings in excel. |
I have your solution, YO! This used to drive me muther fucking nuts too! Behold.. An outside of the box solution. Leave the reviewing bar up. Right click on the icon area of the tool bar. click on customize. click on commands. then drag all but one of the buttons for reviewing off of your tool bar. when you've dragged enough of them off, your tool bar will take up the same space as you normally have. manipulate it around and you'll get it right. You're outsmarting excell by leaving the reviewing bar up, but none of the buttons are there. The reviewing pops up because some FUCK TARD has it opened in the spreadsheet that they emailed you. Thus, when you open it up Excel pops it up there. Let me know if this works for you!! 
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 You don't have to leave any of the buttons on it at all. I took them all off and now it sits as a blank spot at the top of the screen ... takes up about as much space as adding a button. thank you! |
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Free word processors that ain't bad: www.openoffice.org/ www.abisource.com/ |