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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: MS Word
Date: 15:06 on 15 Oct 2003
I had to write a document in Word recently.

I hate it when an application think it is smarter than I am.

It kept 'correcting' my capitalization.  Somewhere, it has this belief that
bullet-point lists must begin with a capital letter.  This is not true if
it is a list of file names on a case-sensitive filesystem.  As soon as I
typed a space at the end of the word, it made the first letter a capital.
After that I could change it back to lowercase.

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.
In this case, as soon as I put a period after a server, it changed the
first letter to a capital.  I made it lowercase and went back to the end
of the line to continue typing.  It made it a capital again.  Finally,
I had to finish the entire line, then go back to change it.

I thought that I had all the autocorrection crud off, since it doesn't
otherwise automatically change my grammar or spelling.  But somewhere, in
a menu I can't find, there's probably something about capitalization.  It's
a lame default setting.

I was also second-guessed when it came to italics.  It kept reverting
to plaintext as soon as I typed a period.  Not sensible when I want to
italicize a filename.

This is only a few minutes with Word.  I'm glad I don't have to use
it on a regular basis.

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