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a mode where you ADD auto features to a default blank slate
Office products, especially Word, do so much automatically that it often
behaves in unexpected ways and it is not clear how to "turn off" those many features. I would LOVE to be able to click on a button and switch the default mode to a COMPLETELY blank slate, where NOTHING would be done automatically except those things I purposefully turned on. In word, for example, you could start from a bare-bones mode that didn't do anything except display your typing in a paper with 1-inch margins. From there, you could add proportional spacing, paragraph protocols, turn on spell check, grammar check, automatic list formats, etc...... Years ago, I had a word processing program called "Write Now" that was arranged this way - it didn't do anything "fancy" until you told it to. This meant that you could deal with features as you needed them and learned about them. It made trouble-shooting SO MUCH EASIER. Perhaps a "set up wizard" could be written that would ask you whether or not you want to use the various features? Clearly, it would take a long time to go through it, but it could also act as a mini-tutorial. For each feature, there could be a brief explanation and then you could choose to turn it on or off or set the default setting. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi Amy,
Have a look at these articles: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...AutoFormat.htm http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:47:59 -0700, Amy wrote: Office products, especially Word, do so much automatically that it often behaves in unexpected ways and it is not clear how to "turn off" those many features. I would LOVE to be able to click on a button and switch the default mode to a COMPLETELY blank slate, where NOTHING would be done automatically except those things I purposefully turned on. In word, for example, you could start from a bare-bones mode that didn't do anything except display your typing in a paper with 1-inch margins. From there, you could add proportional spacing, paragraph protocols, turn on spell check, grammar check, automatic list formats, etc...... Years ago, I had a word processing program called "Write Now" that was arranged this way - it didn't do anything "fancy" until you told it to. This meant that you could deal with features as you needed them and learned about them. It made trouble-shooting SO MUCH EASIER. Perhaps a "set up wizard" could be written that would ask you whether or not you want to use the various features? Clearly, it would take a long time to go through it, but it could also act as a mini-tutorial. For each feature, there could be a brief explanation and then you could choose to turn it on or off or set the default setting. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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While these articles go a long way toward helping users get rid of automatic
features, I think Amy's suggestion of a "bare bones" operating state, with a Setup Wizard, is a good one. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Hi Amy, Have a look at these articles: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...AutoFormat.htm http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:47:59 -0700, Amy wrote: Office products, especially Word, do so much automatically that it often behaves in unexpected ways and it is not clear how to "turn off" those many features. I would LOVE to be able to click on a button and switch the default mode to a COMPLETELY blank slate, where NOTHING would be done automatically except those things I purposefully turned on. In word, for example, you could start from a bare-bones mode that didn't do anything except display your typing in a paper with 1-inch margins. From there, you could add proportional spacing, paragraph protocols, turn on spell check, grammar check, automatic list formats, etc...... Years ago, I had a word processing program called "Write Now" that was arranged this way - it didn't do anything "fancy" until you told it to. This meant that you could deal with features as you needed them and learned about them. It made trouble-shooting SO MUCH EASIER. Perhaps a "set up wizard" could be written that would ask you whether or not you want to use the various features? Clearly, it would take a long time to go through it, but it could also act as a mini-tutorial. For each feature, there could be a brief explanation and then you could choose to turn it on or off or set the default setting. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...mid=6ef1e636-a a89-4b0a-957c-a994d40f5223&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagemen t |
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