How Do You Turn Off Annoying MS Word Features?
Microsoft Word 2003 has many features which, rather than being helpful, are annoying. This article tells you how to turn them off. Creating New Styles for Every Format Change Someone at Microsoft thought it would be helpful to create a feature called “Keep track of formatting” that would create and modify styles as you edited your Word document. A style named “Heading 1” would be recreated and named “Heading 1 + 11 pt” once you modified the font size of some text already under the “Heading 1” style. As text is changed, more and more styles are created by Word until your Styles and Formatting pane looks like the thing to the right. Opening Docs in Reading Layout This feature hides all toolbars and puts two pages side-by-side on your screen, and is the new default layout when you open docs from Outlook. This annoying feature must be turned off! AutoFormatting Some of Microsoft Word’s auto formatting is helpful, but there are four particular formats that are not. * Replacing regular quota
