Re: MS Word

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: MS Word
Date: 09:26 on 19 Aug 2004
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:42:51 -0700 (PDT), Ann Barcomb <ann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
[MS Word find and replace is case-insensitive by default]
> This is a really dumb default, made by a program that assumes I'm
> too stupid to indicate precisely what I want to do.

Well, many typical Word users *are* too stupid to indicate precisely
what they want to do. For them, having case-insensitivity be the
default is good. (It also helps them find a word whether it's at the
beginning of a sentence or not, for example.)

If you want something for the power-user, maybe MSWord is not it -
perhaps you're not the right user for the program :p

Though it would be useful if one could specify such changed default
settings in a personal .mswordrc or something...

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>
There's stuff above here

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