jodawi | (no subject)

Way long ago, there was a Mac app that was supposed to be clever. It could watch what you did, and notice any repetitive actions, and then automatically do the repetitive actions for you.

Unfortunately (according to the review I read), it turned out that very few repetitive operations were predictable enough for it to do a good job.

Microsoft Word seems to be a gorilla cousin of that app. It keeps helpfully automatically applying screwups to my document, sometimes useful but usually wrong. I then have to fix it up manually to do exactly what I had told it to do and not something different, or find one of the myriad preferences to turn off if I have the energy to search through them all and consult help on the ones that don't make sense immediately.

At least Clippy doesn't bounce into view and say "Hi! You seem to want me to automatically screw things up for you!" anymore.

In related news, once upon a time I could double-click the end of a line to select the paragraph mark (and its paragraph style). Now that inserts a new tab instead. Anyone know how to get back to the previous behavior? Not that the previous behavior seems very useful anymore, since pasting over a paragraph mark no longer modifies the pasted-onto paragraph style alone but also whacks out the following paragraph.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Throw MS Word in the garbage. Nail lid shut.

there's a way to turn off the auto-complete function. somewhere in the preferences. i think it's a checkbox.

on my version, you go to Insert menu, click Autotext, then uncheck the box for "Show Autocomplete Suggestions".

Dozens of options in 5 auto-correct panes that woudn't fit in the normal options dialog. Don't know which of those dozens, if any, means "don't turn on italics when you hit enter at the end of that one line which has alternating italics and non-italics, ending with non-italics".

hm. you must have the deluxe version, with premium-level annoyances.