MS Word: autocorrecting and auto formatting, part 0

Self-tutoring about MS Word: the tutor philosophizes….

I believe that MS Word’s auto formatting features are meant to be helpful, but often I find they aren’t. It calls me to wonder…should I be doing things differently, so that MS Word’s auto formatting would fit with my projects?

I find Microsoft’s formatting works best when I prompt it. I use the List functions often, for instance, by clicking those squares on the ribbon. I might change a paragraph – to give a hanging indent, for instance – but once again, I initiate it.

Apparently, going into File, then Options (or Word Options), then Proofing, then AutoCorrect Options, you can find, and turn off, various aspects of Microsoft’s auto formatting. I haven’t done it (yet), but I’ve visited those dialogs.

Yet, millions, possibly billions, of people use MS Word…most of them, I assume, find the auto formatting helpful, or it wouldn’t be like that. I just can’t understand why I don’t.

Source:

thesoftwarepro.com