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>> Lots of people keep saying this; where is this menu, OOC?
>
> See attached images. When it makes a correction, it puts a little blue
> box under the correction if you mouse close to it. Hover over the box to
> get the drop-down menu. (Or maybe click the box?)
Well, I've never seen that happen. Which version of Office is this?
> In any case, if you
> correct the same auto-correct several times, it stops correcting that.
> Like, if "cisco" is supposed to be lowercase, the second or third time
> you lower-case that word manually it turns off the corrections too.
> Surprisingly clever.
What you call "clever", I call "unpredictable". I like software that
behaves in exactly the same way every single time I use it. (And HCI
studies have repeatedly demonstrated that such behaviour greatly
facilitates learnability.)
>> OTOH, if you just want to, say, record how many hours you spent
>> working on each project this week, throwing together a small Access
>> database is worlds simpler than setting up an Oracle server instance,
>> configuring a security context, designing a database schema and
>> writing a GUI to interface to it.
>
> Yep. Or even an excel spreadsheet.
Dude, do you have *any idea* how many people think that using an Excel
spreadsheet is an appropriate way to have multiple users input data into
the same file?? *shivers*
>>> SQL Server has the helpful wizards, instead.
>>
>> Uh... do I even want to ask which tasks it automates?
>
> Stuff like setting up cluster replication, configuring automated
> backups, things like that. I'm sure Gail has at least one or two wizards
> she starts out with when setting things up. :-)
Oh, OK. So stuff that geniunely *is* difficult to set up by hand then?
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