For the love of all that is holy...

[akujunkan]

...can one of you kind souls pleeeease give me directions on how to turn the autofuckupformat function of microsucksoft word 2000 off? I have to retype large portions of my ESL research paper translation because microsucksoft autofuckupformatted it when I wasn't looking. Serves me right for being a touch typist, I guess.

ETA: I'd do it myself (and egads, how I've tried), but I have no idea what autofuckupformat is called in Japanese, and thus no idea what option I'm trying to unselect in the first place.

That will be all.

Comments

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of an unused Microsoft Office XP with your name on it, if you want. =)

...not sure that switching to another version of Windows hell is any better though.

I'm not having much trouble with Office 2003, though... EVEN HAS A BUTTON THAT TAKES OUT ALL OFFICE FORMATTING OH THANK YOU BABY JESUS.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, if only. But the problem here is that this is the city's software installed on the city's outdated-as-fuck-windows-ninety-fucking-five-guys?-come-oncomputer, and I don't have a say about it one way or the other.

Ah, Office 2003. You make it sound like the Promised Land.

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

My version is 2003, so I'm hoping it'll be the same.

Tools>AutoCorrect Options

This should open a dialogue box in which you can uncheck a number of options.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Got it, thanks! Now I just have to sit down and translate exactly what each of those options means.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

I asked blogula but he didn't answer me yet - he did say that when you get a chance, switch to OpenOffice for a superior product at the unbeatable price of Free.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

If only. But as Our Protector Rumsfeld might be apt to say, "You make due with the computer software the city gives you, not the computer software you want."

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Aha! Check your email for a forwarded help doc from the esteemed blogula (DH)

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's gone a long way toward helping me to decode the autocorrect options.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Verrry quick like a bunny . . . My Word 2000 is set for U.S. English, and I suspect the interface is probably rather different. However, I can show you what it looks like in mine. Screen captures ahoy.

You can get to the exact same autoformat settings by two different routes on the menu bar, A or B.

A. Autoformat 1
1. On the menu bar, select Format | Autoformat | Options (button)
2. Click the tab you want to select it.
* Autoformat As You Type <-- uncheck all the ones you don't want
* Autoformat <-- uncheck all the ones you don't want
* AutoCorrect <-- disable the ones you don't want

OR:
B. Autoformat 2
1. On the menu bar, click Tools | Autocorrect Options.
2. Click the tab you want.

EXTRA:
C. Program options
1. On the menu bar, click Tools | Options.
2. Select the tab you want, such as Asian Typography
A couple of things you might want to do while you're at it:
* Spelling & Grammar (tab) <-- turn off "grammar checker" ('cause it's annoying)
* Save (tab) <-- turn off "allow fast saves" (So-called fast saves has always been a known issue for this program in all versions.)

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I've always got Word open, so if you need more screen captures of something specific, just tell me what you need a picture of.