Re: innovation and spell checking

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

Dan Strychalski wrote:

> Oh, and then there's the oh-so-smart search-and-replace. The same guy
> needed to replace an all-caps string with a mixed-case string. No go.
> Word did the replacements -- but it capitalized the entire replacement
> string in every instance.

This is one of my biggest gripes.  Microsoft often makes assumptions
about what a user wants, and they are almost always wrong.  Nothing
pisses me off more than a program screwing up my data/doc because it
makes an assumption that's incorrect.

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