In article <[log in to unmask]>,
toback2 <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Greg Stigers writes:

Re 'cute, cuddly' cartoon characters infesting Microsoft Office, each
*much* larger than an entire word processing program used to be...
>
><rant>
>Actually, I mind the agent a lot less than I mind the "helpful" automated
>correction features. Trying to type a sentence with an uncapitalized word
>at the beginning is absolutely impossible, and I often need to do that
>when writing documentation. Also, woe to you if your TLA is in
>Microsoft's list of misspellings for common English words: you'll never
>be able to type it unless you disable autocorrection. (Adding it to the
>spelling dictionary, which seems like the obvious thing to do, doesn't
>work.) And good luck figuring out how to disable autocorrection, because
>it's not called that in the UI even though it's called that in the
>marketing literature and packaging. And just try typing a plain document
>with Roman numerals in front of the paragraph headings. No, Microsoft, I
>do *not* want to create an outline!
>

It's worth knowing (Scribble the Cat told me) that if you mostly like
Autocorrect, but a few of its actions are inappropriate for you, then an
'Undo' after an Autocorrect will undo that action, and not *your* last
action.


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