Re: muchoshite Word

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: muchoshite Word
Date: 18:25 on 07 Nov 2006
Cory Myers wrote:
> There is an equivalent option for table cells...somewhere. And
> probably only in some versions, with Smart Tags (*shudders*) turned
> on.
> 
> C.

Hey, that sort of rings a bell! I was once typing Russian text, and Word would 
readily show what I typed until I entered a quotation mark, which jumped to some 
  really creative location inside the paragraph. "OK", thought I, based on my 
experience with the abortion known as 'bidirectional rendering', "it will 
probably be fine when I enter the closing quotation mark". Nope - the closing 
one leaped to some other equally unpredictable place.

After trying to type quotation marks in various places and not being able to 
find any correlation between the cursor & the new character position, I started 
wandering around the settings. And what did I find in about half an hour? "SMART 
QOUTES" were on. You ain't gonna outsmart these quotes, buddy!

So I wonder: were these "Smart Tags"? The Russian translation called them 
"quotes", but something makes me not trust it very much.

-- Yossi

> 
> On 11/7/06, Jeremy Weathers <jer@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> 
>> This morning I had to use Word to enter some tabular data - most of
>> the data was all lowercase, but Word insisted on capitalizing the
>> first letter of every cell. I found and disabled the "feature" to
>> auto-correct capitalization, but un-surprisingly this did not change
>> the behavior for table cells (although it did change it outside of
>> tables).
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Jeremy Weathers
>>
>>
>> Sony-Ericsson: We put the "slow" in
>> "Damn, this crappy phone is slow!"
>>     - Wil Shipley
>>
> 
> 


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