Re: How to make Word STOP rewriting your copy

On 8/28/05 2:14 PM, "Anybody" wrote:

> In article <BF375431.D461%m_bintener@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Michel Bintener
> <m_bintener@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>> Word's feature (though you do not seem to consider it that way)
> <snip>
>
> Word has a number of "helpful features", almost all of which are a
> complete pain in the bottom that simply wastes a ton of my time trying
> to get it to behave properly. I know what I want to do, Word does not,
> so it should leave my text just how I entered it and not keep playing
> with it no matter how many times I re-correct it's "correction". :-(

Are you the same person to whom I already recommended links to control that,
or did you see them in my previous message on this thread? Please do--it's
really not that difficult to seize control from Word, but it does require
about 75 seconds to uncheck some boxes.
>
> Plus the peculiarly Word "bugs" like backspacing from one line to the
> previous one and the whole font changes for no reason at all. :-\

No, there is a reason, this is part of Word's design. Much formatting of the
text in a paragraph is stored in the paragraph mark at the end of the
paragraph. When you backspace from one paragraph to the previous one, you
delete the first paragraph mark, and leave the second one, so the formatting
in the second paragraph mark applies to all the text.

This is easier to see if you operate with nonprinting characters on so that
the paragraph marks show up as gray ¶s. Click ¶ on the standard toolbar.

I do not know enough about programming to know whether this is bad design or
not, but it isn't actually a bug.

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/>
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