Can I make Word into a typewriter?

"Greg" wrote in message
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You have spent more time
bantering here than it would take to resolve all the issues in your
orginal complaint by following the helpful tips that Daiya provided.

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I seriously doubt that a person could learn Word in 2 minutes, but your
point is well taken that Ng's seem to attract some people who get their joy
out of personally attacking others who may not agree with them, and thus it
is best to ignore them and get on to solving the problem. I'm not saying DOS
was better than Windows, but there were some great, simple DOS programs that
got the job done with a short learning curve. These simple applications
seemed to disappear when Windows came along, and while Word and other
windows applications will do much more, the end user doesn't always need to
use all these features and then the program becomes an impediment to getting
the job done. I agree it is not practical to use DOS anymore because for
better or worse, the world has moved on to something different and that's
just the way it is. It would be nice if Word had a default setting that
turned all "features" off in the beginning and then a user could add them
one at a time as he learned how to use them.

Bob

rck wrote:
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/conc...ion/index.html
and http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/GettingStarted.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org

Being of the old school where learning was done with books, I'm more
comfortable with a manual or instruction book than trying to wade
through screen after screen online. Earthlink also disconnects me if
I read for more than 2 minutes without moving on. What would you
recommend as a good book for learning not just Word, but all of
Office. I have Office Pro 2000.

Bob

Hi Bob,

I've generally found the books in the "Special Edition Using Microsoft
Office" series from QUE Books to be pretty good. I haven't looked at the
Word-specific one by Bill Camarda, but I have the overall Office version by
Ed Bott.

Be aware that even in 1400+ pages the book isn't going to cover every topic
of interest to you in complete detail -- owing to the very feature bloat
you're complaining about. :-(

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Bob,

I agree that all of the default AutoCorrectAsYouType settings should be
off when the user installs the Word program. It would save countless
people a lot of grief. My reference to "2 minutes" is that turning
those features off goes a long way in eliminating that frustration.

I will say that for every hour (and there has been many) that I have
spent trying to figure out Word features has been made up for in the
countless hours that I have saved by using some of those features
effectively.

Notepad is not DOS (which horrifies me). It is a simple text
application that will run circles around a typewriter without the Word
clutter that you find distracting. Give it a try.
StartProgramsAccessoriesNotepad

Bob

You're not the first (or last) person to complain about the Auto-features in
Word. The real problem is that if they are OFF by default - most users will
never know about them. Because the are ON by default, most users don't know
what the hell is causing all these unexpected actions and it drives them
nuts!

Some of them are useful IF you know the whats and whyfores and expect 'it'
to happen; but generally speaking, even the dedicated (power) Word users
keep most of the features turned off!

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

"rck" wrote in message
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: "Greg" wrote in message
: oups.com...
:
: snip
:
:
: You have spent more time
: bantering here than it would take to resolve all the issues in your
: orginal complaint by following the helpful tips that Daiya provided.
:
: snip
:
:
: I seriously doubt that a person could learn Word in 2 minutes, but your
: point is well taken that Ng's seem to attract some people who get their
joy
: out of personally attacking others who may not agree with them, and thus
it
: is best to ignore them and get on to solving the problem. I'm not saying
DOS
: was better than Windows, but there were some great, simple DOS programs
that
: got the job done with a short learning curve. These simple applications
: seemed to disappear when Windows came along, and while Word and other
: windows applications will do much more, the end user doesn't always need
to
: use all these features and then the program becomes an impediment to
getting
: the job done. I agree it is not practical to use DOS anymore because for
: better or worse, the world has moved on to something different and that's
: just the way it is. It would be nice if Word had a default setting that
: turned all "features" off in the beginning and then a user could add them
: one at a time as he learned how to use them.
:
: Bob
:
:

G'Day,

Way back in 1964, Eric Berne wrote a book -
Games People Play.

It was a popular sequel to his more comprehensive -
Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy.

One of the Games has the tag - YDYB -
"Why Don't You - Yes But...."

"The agent (White) presents a problem. The others start
to present solutions, each beginning with 'Why don't you...?'.
To each of these White objects with a 'Yes but...' A good
player can stand off the others indefinitely, until they all give
up, whereupon White wins."

You are an accomplished Player!!
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Australia
_______________________

"rck" wrote in message
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I used to have this neat little program in DOS called Professional Write.
It was just like using a typewriter and did exactly what I wanted it to do.
But alas, DOS is gone, all in the name of "improving" things. Word drives
me nuts, always hyphenating things I don't want hyphenated, indenting what
I don't want indented, capitalizing what I don't want capitalized and
generally making a mess out of my documents. Is there a way to stop it from
"helping" me?

Bob

See Using Office Special Edition. http://addbalance.com/word/wordbooks.htm.
"rck" wrote in message
nk.net...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/conc...ion/index.html and
http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/GettingStarted.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org

Being of the old school where learning was done with books, I'm more
comfortable with a manual or instruction book than trying to wade through
screen after screen online. Earthlink also disconnects me if I read for
more than 2 minutes without moving on. What would you recommend as a good
book for learning not just Word, but all of Office. I have Office Pro
2000.

Bob

Use notepad or wordpad instead. Word is _not_ a typewriter.

Otherwise, sit down and learn how to use it. If you do much typing at all,
you'll be glad you did.

A book written back in the 1980's "The Word Processing Book" should be
required reading. It is short and humorous but filled with good points on
how to not use a word processor like a typewriter.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"rck" wrote in message
k.net...
I used to have this neat little program in DOS called Professional Write.
It was just like using a typewriter and did exactly what I wanted it to do.
But alas, DOS is gone, all in the name of "improving" things. Word drives
me nuts, always hyphenating things I don't want hyphenated, indenting what
I don't want indented, capitalizing what I don't want capitalized and
generally making a mess out of my documents. Is there a way to stop it from
"helping" me?

Bob

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"Greg" wrote in message
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You have spent more time
bantering here than it would take to resolve all the issues in your
orginal complaint by following the helpful tips that Daiya provided.

snip


I seriously doubt that a person could learn Word in 2 minutes,
(...)
I'm not saying DOS was better than Windows, but there
were some great, simple DOS programs that got the job done with a
short learning curve. These simple applications seemed to disappear
when Windows came along, and while Word and other windows
applications will do much more, the end user doesn't always need to
use all these features and then the program becomes an impediment to
getting the job done. I agree it is not practical to use DOS anymore
because for better or worse, the world has moved on to something
different and that's just the way it is. It would be nice if Word had
a default setting that turned all "features" off in the beginning and
then a user could add them one at a time as he learned how to use
them.

Bob

Yesterday I read this anecdote about the autopilot in a certain
airplane (it was in a book about Bash Scripting).
The story was that this airplane had 5 different ways to configure the
autopilot, just to be compatible with 5 other types of autopilot. The
idea was to reduce training time.
Of course, pilots have to know how to operate all equipment, so they
had to learn all 5 ways of configuring the autopilot...

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