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Oct. 4th, 2009 06:39 pmSo I once again have microsoft word - first time in years, and
CURLY QUOTES ARGH TEH CHELS SEZ NO
but I can't find where I can set my documents to NOT use stupid curly quotes, elongated dashes, and the like.
I really wish microsoft had a style setting that was Traditional Manuscript format - courier new 12 point, double spacing, 25 lines per page, no widow or orphan control, 50 characters per line, 5 character indent, no elongated dashes or "smart quotes" - It's chock full of layouts i do not need and never use, and I always spend days fighting with it to do something as incredibly simple as "look like I had typewritten this, please."
it's true - everything I write, everything I draft, from fiction to grocery lists, I write it in SMF. if I need to change it to look fancy AFTER the fact, then I will do that. manuallly, since I never use style templates. and if an expensive program like microsoft word won't make it simple for me to make a document do what I want - be utterly plain and unadroned, then I will eschew it in favore of Notepad.
I do a lot of writing in Notepad. Notepad never irritates me.
Edited to add: SOLVED! Hooray!
CURLY QUOTES ARGH TEH CHELS SEZ NO
but I can't find where I can set my documents to NOT use stupid curly quotes, elongated dashes, and the like.
I really wish microsoft had a style setting that was Traditional Manuscript format - courier new 12 point, double spacing, 25 lines per page, no widow or orphan control, 50 characters per line, 5 character indent, no elongated dashes or "smart quotes" - It's chock full of layouts i do not need and never use, and I always spend days fighting with it to do something as incredibly simple as "look like I had typewritten this, please."
it's true - everything I write, everything I draft, from fiction to grocery lists, I write it in SMF. if I need to change it to look fancy AFTER the fact, then I will do that. manuallly, since I never use style templates. and if an expensive program like microsoft word won't make it simple for me to make a document do what I want - be utterly plain and unadroned, then I will eschew it in favore of Notepad.
I do a lot of writing in Notepad. Notepad never irritates me.
Edited to add: SOLVED! Hooray!
