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> I had to write a document in Word recently. I feel your pain. > [...] As soon as I > typed a space at the end of the word, it made the first letter a capital. While that's annoying, it's unfortunately near universal. Just part of the growing background noise of software suck that makes every day "hate day". Of course Word does manage to implement every possible suck source (suck feature? suckture? bug?). So you're quite entitled to assign this hate to Word for the nonce. > It was worse when it decided that the names of artists must be proper > nouns. This is not appropriate when the servers are named after artists. Now THAT is a glorious new kind of suck, Thanks for drawing our attention to it. > This is only a few minutes with Word. I'm glad I don't have to use > it on a regular basis. Unfortunately Dilbert only keeps a couple of week online, I think the comic for Feb 16 2003 explains it all, but googling for "dilbert 20030216" should come up with a hit or two [1]. Using Word is like applying capsaicins to your clue centers. Eventually the pain starts generating endorphins and you get this kind of "Runner's High". After that you're in a happy place, and you actually start thinking that writing VB macros to work around apalling design flaws is productivity. [1] I rarely have reason to hate Google, and the last time I did they fixed the problem the same day I mailed them about it, and sent me a personal email to let me know it was fixed. Isn't it sad that kind of response is rare enough that it's worth commenting on?There's stuff above here
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