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Make Word's "Proper Case" tool work properly
When pressing Shift-F3 in Word to adjust the case of the selected text, the
"Proper Case" function has never worked properly. To wit, it always capitalizes the first letter of every word instead of capitalizing the words that should be capitalized in a title. For instance, it would capitalize "How to Be Attractive to the Woman You Love" as "How To Be Attractive To The Woman You Love," ignoring the fact that the two uses of the preposition "to" and the article "the" should not be capitalized unless they are the first word of the title, which in this case they are not. Word has been around well over 10 years, and in that time, this really should have been fixed. It's little things like this that make Microsoft look like they can't see the forest for the trees and like they're too busy managing their stock price to sell competently-developed software. Take a step back and clean it up, and then take another step back and clean up all the errors in the link libraries for your various development environments. There are plenty of people around who are quite capable with x86 assembly language, and a crew of 10 could clean those libraries up within a quarter, and you'd be shocked at how much smaller and faster everything would run if you did, not to mention secure and bug-free. I know it can be done because I was part of a crew that did it once with the Microsoft C libraries. The finished libaries were one-third the size of the originals, bug-free, and executed about 30 times faster than the originals, and we did nothing but strip out redundant and inert code and fix what was left so that it worked as the manual said that it should. This was in 1992 or so, and it still hasn't been done at Microsoft 13 years later. If we could do it, with the little time and resources we had, there's no reason why a company the size of Microsoft can't. Stop piling on the "Band-Aids" and heal the wounds. ---------------- 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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