

They found that the 2007 lock down was too much of a "good thing", too much like the good old "IBM 360 green screen" (even if most people don't recognize the reference), so in 2010 they The QAT was an afterthought, a sop, to allow users minimal customization. Was intentionally built as a fixed design so that average user cannot change it. You'll see that one of the considerations of the ribbon was to ELIMINATE/REDUCE customization because it was costing large corporate customers too much time/money to support their users with 2003 customized menu/toolbars. Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog. While I whole heartedly agree with this suggestion, if you look through this blog about the design decisions that went into the 2007 ribbon: Please don't go the way of Apple and force users into the way that you *think* we should do things. There are 5 ways to do any one thing, and you can customize it to do it however you want.
#AUTO CORRECT IN STYLEWRITER 4 WINDOWS#
This was one reason I have always preferred Windows over Mac. Microsoft used to be about allowing users to customize the OS and apps however they want. To change AutoCorrect options, do the following:

In addition, the spelling error context menu now fits better on the screen. This enables users to find popular commands more quickly. Less clutter in the spelling error context menu. The features are still available in Word 2013 through other entry points within the Word user interface. To make Word 2013 cleaner and less cluttered, we removed AutoCorrect and certain formatting tools from the spelling error context menu. If it really is gone, and I have to manually add the entries into a buried table 6-clicks deep, then I will issue a public excoriation of this feature on as many social platforms of my choice.Īuto-Correct and certain formatting tools are no longer available from the spelling error context menu. If I am missing this in a major way somehow, I apologize completely and will issue a public apology via any
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Please advise ALL OF US that want this feature back how to have our commonly misspelled words fixed and added automatically to the dictionary. I copy n pasted below the operative row from the linked TechNet page as to the reason WHY this critical (and very popular feature) has been removed from Microsoft Office 2013 Word's context-menu: LESS CLUTTERĪnd your answer is ambiguous and doesn't solve the issue that you created to make things prettier: "Click the AutoCorrect Options button" Then what? ADD EACH WORD MANUALLY? I normally don't rant, but this is a killer feature removal, and the reason given is for aesthetics - 'Removal of clutter" is how it's worded here:
