Well, that or maybe Insert > Autotext > Autotext (from the popup menu) > Autocorrect > Replace text as you type
But I can’t find anything in the list of replacement text that shows an em or en dash.
The designers try, I mean they really try, but a lot of the time they only get it about 80% right. Lamar Mundane take your Lexus. Having the car relock is a great idea if your remote gets josled in your pocket and the unlock button gets pushed by accident. So the Lexus enginners set it up that if a door does not open within a set time the car relocks. Too bad they forgot to include the trunk in their calculations. :smack: Our engineers did include the trunk, but we had another problem with our alarm system. We built an alarm system that locked the car and then armed the alarm 5 seconds after the button was pushed. We got complaints (lots of complaints) from women that complained that when they put their key into the ignition that the alarm went off. 
Why mostly women? Why couldn’t the technician duplicate the condition?
It turns out that the women were getting into the car and locking the doors with the remote, then fastening their seat belt, and finally putting the key into the ignition. By now more than 5 seconds had elapsed, the alarm had armed and the system saw the key as a theft attempt. :smack:
So the engineers had to go back and change the arming cycle to 25 seconds, and we changed the owner’s manual to remind the customer that the remote is only for locking the car from the outside as it will also arm the alarm.
Now my pet peeve is cell phones. I got a new phone that charges off a USB cable, and has a mini CF card in the phone. Great, this will make programing my phone numbers a snap. Right guess again. The only thing that I can download over the USB cable or via the mini card are ring tones and MP3s. God forbid that anyone might want to use their phone as a phone. Some engineer was so jazzed about downloading ringtones he forgot to allow us to download phone numbers easily. :wally
Me neither, that’s why I asked. :dubious:
Can you post specific repro steps for this issue?
We just need a “stoopid/manual” mode that disables all of the smart features…
I just checked, and it turns out I was right the first time. If you uncheck the Hyphens option from both the Autocorrect and Autocorrect as you type tabs, Word will stop replacing hyphen dashes with en (or em, if you typed two hyphens) dashes.
I hate Word. I hate even more that I knew the answer to this question. sigh
Allow me to be contrarian and say that the mirrors are shifting position so that you’re forced to turn your head and look in the direction you’re going. Backwards. You know, the way they insist you do it when you take your driver’s exam.
But I agree with MS Word’s intrusiveness. First thing I do when I sit down at a new desk is turn off all the autocorrect functions.
Personally, I’ll never forgive Microchof’s localization teams for changing the shortcuts. I learned MSOffice in English. If I use a version in another language, all the pics are the same and the menus are the same (I may not understand them, but I know how to use them), but hitting ctrl+b will bring out “search” instead of bold, and ctrl+f will do freaky things with my formats and…
Oh yeah, and the first thing I do when I’m handed a new computer is switch off the autocorrect features and the clippy. My documents tend to be a mixture of 3-4 languages, drives the autocorrector and myself nuts.
That’s only of severely limited use. That’s because Windows Explorer chooses to remember the settings with which you most previously viewed a folder, and uses that info when traversing the subfolders. So even if you have no intention of viewing the subfolder contents, Explorer can insist on showing you the thumbnails anyway–y’know, just in case. After all, they know what you really want to do.
I’m not sure what you’re asking. Please define “repro.”
I’m pretty sure he means “please reproduce exactly what you do to create this issue.”
What I think the answer is:
If you type two dashes next to each other, Word replaces the (dash)(dash) with one (long dash).
You know, I’ve always found people (especially in the US)'s reluctance (or refusal) to wear seatbelts rather puzzling.
I don’t want to hijack the thread, but I did want to mention that I always wear my seatbelt- even if I’m only driving a kilometre down the road, or out hunting in a 4WD on private property. I feel naked and uncomfortable without it when I’m in a car.
Of course, I can see how the beeping would be annoying if your local laws didn’t require you to wear a seatbelt and you’d made an informed and calculated decision not to wear one (within the legal framework you had to work within, of course.) Some of the Japanese Import cars here have an annoying alarm whenever your car goes over 100km/h- which nearly everyone who ones one has deactivated, since the speed limit on the motorways and outside built up areas is generally 110km/h…
Are you trying to say that 80% of owners accidentally hit the “unlock” feature by mistake? Then I’d suggest that instead of designing a feature that will automatically lock a door without the owner’s consent, you should work on designing a less sensitive remote.
Now, this is not to say that I’m opposed to neat little features. I’m just against having them set as the standard. IMO, MSWord should come almost completely denuded of the “smart” features, such as auto-correction, auto-word replacement and automatically hyperlinking .com words. Bare bones Word is perfectly acceptable for most end users.
MS could then market the extra optional features, either via a video or a website, so that high volume users could investigate how they could make it work easier for their individual circumstances. Is is very frustrating to me to spend hours trying to disable a feature that I really didn’t want in the first place and that is actually inhibiting me from doing what I want to do.
Is there a reason that you can’t leave the seatbelt plugged in when no one is sitting in the seat?
Sorry. What I meant was, “Please describe the steps needed to reproduce the problem, in excruciating enough detail that either a drug-addled howler monkey or a Microsoft programmer, whoever is stoopider, could see the issue on his own system in order to investigate it in more detail.”
While it is a fact that the masses are asses, what I ment was that the engineers only get about 80% of the answer right. Take the Lexus for example. It does not take a genius to figure out that if you unlock the car sometimes you might be loading stuff into the trunk before you get into the car. Either the Lexus guys did not anticipate this or they underestimated the amount of time it take to unload a cart of food and put the cart away. They got the answer about 80% right. As a result Lamar gets to re-unlock the car
In the case of the Volvo that I mentioned, the engineers never thought that a customer would use the remote to lock the car when they were inside it. After all the remote arms the alarm. Now this one you could blame the customers or the engineers, or a little of both.
There is an upper limit to how much force we can put on the buttons before the customer complains that the buttons are too hard to push. :smack: As it is we recess the unlock button, but shit as they say happens. I have had remotes in my pocket unlock my car from other keys or coins. It is not that uncommon. However when the car auto relocks the customer usually never notices.
We have a mobile network that has now made voicemail an option that requires a university degree to navigate.
(click)
“You are now in the main message menu. This facility allows you to a) Record your personal greeting b) Amend your personal greeting c) Vote d) Predict the next tsunami e) Make a tsunami donation f) Stop a tsunami g) Learn how to spell tsunami h) Order pizza i) yadda yadda yadda yadda ad inforfuckinitum…”
(click)
“You have now selected the b) submenu. This facility allows you to…”
Fnnnnggggguuuuuuuuck!!! What happened to the old format!!! Gaddamit!!
(click)
“Please note that you have two stale messages. These have been automatically deleted.”
Wha…??? Who the fuck said you could delete my messages??? Stupid pink maroon machine!!
I just bought a new Pathfinder on Monday. It does the same damn thing. Though it seems inconsistent. I’m trying to figure out under what conditions it does this.
It’s annoying, but I suppose I’ll have to get used to it. I suspect it’s only a matter of time before I get locked out….
I’m also skeptical of anti-lock brakes. At least with the limited experiences I’ve had with them on my Wife’s car. They seem to suck on packed snow.
A couple of months ago, I was driving my Wife’s Jeep and was about to make a turn I make in my car every single day. Conditions where typical (we live with snow for about 6 months out of the year). The anti-locks kicked in, and I almost had to abort the turn. I know I would have had no trouble with my old car with out the anti-locks.
enipla I think you will find that if you open a door the system does not do the auto re lock.
As far as ABS goes, in snow you trade a shorter stopping distance for the ability to continue to steer. Good trade off IMHO.
The first time it locked on me was when I hit the ‘open all doors’ button and got out to fill up with gas. I was lucky I had my keys with me. In my other car, I would often just throw them on the seat.
As far as the ABS goes, yeah, you should be able to continue to stear while they are pulsating. At least you should have some control. Still don’t like it. In the situation I described, I had been makeing that turn for over 13 years every day in my old SUV with no problems.
In any case, I really like the new Pathfinder, just gonna take some getting used to.