>> 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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