*growls*

[agilebrit]

I can haz MS Word.

And MS Word can bite me.

You know, when I do a simple copy and paste from one document (in OpenOffice) into a blank document (in MS Word), I'd like very much if it would just do it, rather than take it upon itself to format the document in ways that may cause me a huge pain in the ass.

I realize that putting two spaces after a period is considered passe in many venues. However, it's still considered "Standard Manuscript Format" in many others, and these others are places I'm wanting to be published. Therefore, let me type the way I was taught and quit "correcting" me, plzkthxdie.

Hopefully from here on out it'll just let me type the way I always have.

Comments

[crayonbreakygal.livejournal.com]

When you do spell check, it also does a grammar check. 99% of the time, I ignore it's "correct" grammar because it's wrong. I hate Word too and would love to go back to WordPerfect.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, industry standard is Word. *hates*

I think I turned the grammar check off. At least, I tried.

[pensive]

Don't forget to go a-fiddlin' in the options and turn all that trash off. I was ready to shoot the program in the face before I bent it to my evil will

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I think I have done. The green squiggly lines are gone, anyway. I just hope they don't randomly decide to turn themselves back on.

Man, I miss Wordperfect. So many nice features.

[dmdomini.livejournal.com]

Going to Tools => Autocorrect will also let you turn off things like "magic quotes", special-character dashs, and other "auto-formatting" things. I, quite literally, uncheck everything on all tabs in Word 2000, so that it does no auto-correcting at all. I also go to Tools => Options to change the path that my writing is automatically saved to. (I don't use "My Documents".)

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Ooo, excellent tip, thank you! *changes*

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the "AutoFormat as you type" tab.

[highlander_ii]

Also - you can go to Edit => Paste Special and get a dialog box to tell it NOT to alter your text when it pastes. I think 'unformatted' will do what you want - ie: keep the standard stuff. Though it *will* strip any bold/italic/underlines in there.

But, yeah - undo all the 'autocorrect' stuff.

Oh - and if you're supposed to have 'straight quotes' instead of 'curly quotes', you can turn that off in the autocorrect menu too.