Word - automatically correcting spacing and indenting

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linee - 06 Nov 2005 03:33 GMT

I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am using word to take notes or write an
essay, and it automatically corrects my space indentations (especially using
bullets and " - ") and word choice. 90% of the time, it is correcting
something that I did not wish to have corrected. This is supposed to
decrease my time, but in fact, it causes me to take even longer because I
have to fix all the incorrect corrections made. It also causes me to get
very stressed out and delays my studying/essay writing time even more becasue
I have to take breaks to calm myself down. I believe it is much easier to
allow the user to indent themselves, instead of having the computer "guess"
at how the user wants the indenting to look like.

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Jezebel - 06 Nov 2005 04:46 GMT

So switch off the features you don't want.

>I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am using word to take notes or write an
> essay, and it automatically corrects my space indentations (especially
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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=80ea23ac-9412-4
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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 06 Nov 2005 05:34 GMT

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm

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> I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am using word to take notes or write an
> essay, and it automatically corrects my space indentations (especially using
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LC Killingbeck - 06 Nov 2005 05:40 GMT

> I find it VERY VERY annoying when I am using word to take notes or
> write an essay, and it automatically corrects my space indentations
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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=80ea23
> ac-9412-4113-b39d-46675b1be138&dg=microsoft.public.word.pagelayout

What you want, is already available to you! Just locate all of the
"auto-..." options you don't want, and disable them. Use a fixed-pitch
font (e.g., courier), and do your own enter/return at the end of each
line, and you can reduce the product down to the functionality of a
manual typewriter! Lest this is coming across as totally sarcastic, I'll
add that, when writing computer program code, this is exactly what I do,
including using spaces for indents rather than tabs.

Such a minor thing over which to get stressed out!

Lynn Killingbeck

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