How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm for a start.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Nead Sleinad" wrote in message
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How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?

Your memory is deceiving you because Word 2000 behaved in much the same way
when you first installed it. Microsoft by default sets most of the automatic
formatting options on. You would have had to turn them off to give you the
extra control you seek. Suzanne's link points the way, but note that you
cannot avoid using styles in Word for that is the mechanism by which the
program formats the document. It was equally so in Word 2000. Word is not,
and never has been, a 'plain typewriter'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Nead Sleinad wrote:
How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?

I think the reference may actually be to Word 2.0! It's been a long while
since I've seen it. I don't recall a graphic interface or use of the mouse,
but my memory may be slipping.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Your memory is deceiving you because Word 2000 behaved in much the same
way
when you first installed it. Microsoft by default sets most of the
automatic
formatting options on. You would have had to turn them off to give you the
extra control you seek. Suzanne's link points the way, but note that you
cannot avoid using styles in Word for that is the mechanism by which the
program formats the document. It was equally so in Word 2000. Word is not,
and never has been, a 'plain typewriter'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Nead Sleinad wrote:
How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?

WordPad or NotePad?
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Nead Sleinad" wrote in message
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How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?

Oops

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Charles Kenyon wrote:
I think the reference may actually be to Word 2.0! It's been a long
while since I've seen it. I don't recall a graphic interface or use
of the mouse, but my memory may be slipping.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Your memory is deceiving you because Word 2000 behaved in much the
same way
when you first installed it. Microsoft by default sets most of the
automatic
formatting options on. You would have had to turn them off to give
you the extra control you seek. Suzanne's link points the way, but
note that you cannot avoid using styles in Word for that is the
mechanism by which the program formats the document. It was equally
so in Word 2000. Word is not, and never has been, a 'plain
typewriter'.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Nead Sleinad wrote:
How can I make the undisciplined Word 2003 behave more
like the disciplined Word 2.0 (a plain typewriter)? With
all automations removed, no default styles, no auto
formats, no auto changes - so that I can manually do
everything exactly WHEN I want it and exactly WHERE I
want it?