I regulary have articles submitted in Word with autoformatting turned on. There is a command to covert the autoformatting into "hard" formatting but I am darned if I can remember what it is. So, other peoples autoformatting is a Royal Pain!
Ilene: This may have seemed obvious to those people who are Word Wonders, but to a lazy guy like me who has hated this feature for years but didn't know what to do about it, you've changed my life! Now, if I could figure out how to get rid of that stupid little pop-up Mac guy once and for all. No matter how many preference settings I change he seems to appear every so often just to torture me. Thanks again for a great tip.
Submitted by GeneGable on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 09:51.
Perhaps it is for those folks that can't afford $800 to $1000 layout programs might use Word. Also consider that no one said this article was strictly for designers. I can't stand Word and stay away from it for even creating simple letters. But as a designer, I get a lot of text files to put in my layouts that are in Word format, so it is to my advantage to learn as much as I can about it.
Submitted by PatNewMex on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 07:46.
Used to drive me crazy also. Now those who are using the latest Word are driving me batty. Probably not really their fault, they just bought a loaded computer, but many of them don't know how to use this software.
And I don't suspect most designers use Word, we get articles from others in Word. And there are times when design (if you will) takes the backseat to incorporating copy from someplace... so, no smugness here.
Submitted by bobbyfozz on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 07:49.
While one's at it, it's good to turn off "ordinals with superscript." Nothing uglier than those little th, nd and rd tags floating high above the line.
WORD
Who in their right mind would use Word to design ANYTHING???
Auto Formatting in Word
I regulary have articles submitted in Word with autoformatting turned on. There is a command to covert the autoformatting into "hard" formatting but I am darned if I can remember what it is. So, other peoples autoformatting is a Royal Pain!
Steve Ruis
Thanks!
Ilene: This may have seemed obvious to those people who are Word Wonders, but to a lazy guy like me who has hated this feature for years but didn't know what to do about it, you've changed my life! Now, if I could figure out how to get rid of that stupid little pop-up Mac guy once and for all. No matter how many preference settings I change he seems to appear every so often just to torture me. Thanks again for a great tip.
What about Word 2004
This has always bugged me big time, but where do I correct this in Word 2004?
Word for designing--answer to vsm330
Perhaps it is for those folks that can't afford $800 to $1000 layout programs might use Word. Also consider that no one said this article was strictly for designers. I can't stand Word and stay away from it for even creating simple letters. But as a designer, I get a lot of text files to put in my layouts that are in Word format, so it is to my advantage to learn as much as I can about it.
CRAZY?
Used to drive me crazy also. Now those who are using the latest Word are driving me batty. Probably not really their fault, they just bought a loaded computer, but many of them don't know how to use this software.
And I don't suspect most designers use Word, we get articles from others in Word. And there are times when design (if you will) takes the backseat to incorporating copy from someplace... so, no smugness here.
Turn off Word formatting
While one's at it, it's good to turn off "ordinals with superscript." Nothing uglier than those little th, nd and rd tags floating high above the line.