{"id":39650,"date":"2020-07-09T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39650"},"modified":"2020-07-09T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:53:55","slug":"ms-word-autocorrecting-and-auto-formatting-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/ms-word-autocorrecting-and-auto-formatting-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Word: autocorrecting and auto formatting, part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about MS Word: the tutor philosophizes&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI believe that MS Word&#8217;s auto formatting features are meant to be helpful, but often I find they aren&#8217;t. It calls me to wonder&#8230;should I be doing things differently, so that MS Word&#8217;s auto formatting would fit with my projects?\n<\/p>\n<p>I find Microsoft&#8217;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 &#8211; to give a hanging indent, for instance &#8211; but once again, I initiate it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, going into File, then Options (or Word Options), then Proofing, then AutoCorrect Options, you can find, and turn off, various aspects of Microsoft&#8217;s auto formatting. I haven&#8217;t done it (yet), but I&#8217;ve visited those dialogs.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, millions, possibly billions, of people use MS Word&#8230;most of them, I assume, find the auto formatting helpful, or it wouldn&#8217;t be like that. I just can&#8217;t understand why I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoftwarepro.com\/stop-annoying-automation-in-word\/\">thesoftwarepro.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about MS Word: the tutor philosophizes&#8230;. I believe that MS Word&#8217;s auto formatting features are meant to be helpful, but often I find they aren&#8217;t. It calls me to wonder&#8230;should I be doing things differently, so that MS Word&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/ms-word-autocorrecting-and-auto-formatting-part-0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MS Word: autocorrecting and auto formatting, part 0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39653,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650\/revisions\/39653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}