From: Nicholas Clark Date: 14:29 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: muchoshite Word Sooo, sadly I appear to be compelled to be writing a document using muchoshite Word. And in among the row of icons at the bottom of the window there is a little book icon. And as I type it is animated. And this cutesy little motion distracts me. But try as I may, there is no obvious way to turn it off. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN I want my SS20. And I know where I want to fire it. [And dear hateful london.pm mail archive, please give me my review back] Nicholas Clark
From: Christian Tellefsen Date: 14:45 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 14:29 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > And this cutesy little motion distracts me. But try as I may, there is > no obvious way to turn it off. Have you tried to ask Clippy? Christian
From: Jeremy Weathers
Date: 16:55 on 07 Nov 2006
Subject: Re: muchoshite Word
This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of
the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capitalizing the
first letter of every cell. I found and disabled the "feature" to
auto-correct capitalization, but un-surprisingly this did not change
the behavior for table cells (although it did change it outside of
tables).
--=20
Jeremy Weathers
Sony-Ericsson: We put the "slow" in
"Damn, this crappy phone is slow!"
- Wil Shipley
From: Rebecca Breu Date: 18:11 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word Zitat von Jeremy Weathers <jer@xxxx.xxx>: > This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of > the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capitalizing the > first letter of every cell. I found and disabled the "feature" to > auto-correct capitalization, but un-surprisingly this did not change > the behavior for table cells (although it did change it outside of > tables). > Bah, Word! I hate software that thinks it is smarter than the user. I often have the problem that Word thinks the hyphen in something like "summer- and wintertime" should be a dash. (Actually, I don't know if you use such constructs in English, but in German you do. And you use a HYPHEN!) I try to avoid Word as much as I can, but unfortunateley there are lots of people around who think that even the simplest text should be a word document with as much evil formatting as possible. Rebecca
From: Cory Myers Date: 16:56 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: Re: muchoshite Word There is an equivalent option for table cells...somewhere. And probably only in some versions, with Smart Tags (*shudders*) turned on. C. On 11/7/06, Jeremy Weathers <jer@xxxx.xxx> wrote: > This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of > the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capitalizing the > first letter of every cell. I found and disabled the "feature" to > auto-correct capitalization, but un-surprisingly this did not change > the behavior for table cells (although it did change it outside of > tables). > > -- > > Jeremy Weathers > > > Sony-Ericsson: We put the "slow" in > "Damn, this crappy phone is slow!" > - Wil Shipley >
From: Yossi Kreinin Date: 18:25 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word Cory Myers wrote: > There is an equivalent option for table cells...somewhere. And > probably only in some versions, with Smart Tags (*shudders*) turned > on. > > C. Hey, that sort of rings a bell! I was once typing Russian text, and Word would readily show what I typed until I entered a quotation mark, which jumped to some really creative location inside the paragraph. "OK", thought I, based on my experience with the abortion known as 'bidirectional rendering', "it will probably be fine when I enter the closing quotation mark". Nope - the closing one leaped to some other equally unpredictable place. After trying to type quotation marks in various places and not being able to find any correlation between the cursor & the new character position, I started wandering around the settings. And what did I find in about half an hour? "SMART QOUTES" were on. You ain't gonna outsmart these quotes, buddy! So I wonder: were these "Smart Tags"? The Russian translation called them "quotes", but something makes me not trust it very much. -- Yossi > > On 11/7/06, Jeremy Weathers <jer@xxxx.xxx> wrote: > >> This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of >> the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capitalizing the >> first letter of every cell. I found and disabled the "feature" to >> auto-correct capitalization, but un-surprisingly this did not change >> the behavior for table cells (although it did change it outside of >> tables). >> >> -- >> >> Jeremy Weathers >> >> >> Sony-Ericsson: We put the "slow" in >> "Damn, this crappy phone is slow!" >> - Wil Shipley >> > >
From: Cory Myers Date: 18:34 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: Re: muchoshite Word > So I wonder: were these "Smart Tags"? The Russian translation called them > "quotes", but something makes me not trust it very much. No---Smart Quotes are (should be) quotation marks, just remarkably un-smart ones. *These* are "Smart" Tags: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347451033.aspx After writing and seeing the word "smart" this many times in one message, it now looks like utter gobbledegook. As it should. C.
From: A. Pagaltzis Date: 18:53 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word * Cory Myers <cory@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-11-07 19:35]: > After writing and seeing the word "smart" this many times in > one message, it now looks like utter gobbledegook. As it > should. I'm smart! S-M-R-T! Computer people have an obsession with words like "smart" and "intelligent" anyway, when what they mean is just "context- sensitive" or "adaptive." By that token, even the valve in the cistern of a toilet is "intelligent." Regards,
From: Roger Burton West Date: 18:58 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Cory Myers wrote: >*These* are "Smart" Tags: >http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347451033.aspx And try to load that page but don't accept cookies, or you have JavaScript turned off, you get a two-stage infinite redirect loop. HATE. R
From: Cory Myers Date: 20:30 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: Re: muchoshite Word > And try to load that page but don't accept cookies, or you have > JavaScript turned off, you get a two-stage infinite redirect loop. And, given that said page is on Microsoft's web site, this surprises you? :) C.
From: Darrell Fuhriman Date: 19:19 on 07 Nov 2006 Subject: Re: muchoshite Word > *These* are "Smart" Tags: I was amused the other day to discover that word translated this: *word* into bold, and removed the stars. I had not expected that. It also translates _whatever_ into italics, but alas, leaves /this/ alone. Darrell
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