How To Fix MS Office Annoyances Fast - Small Business Computing

How To Fix MS Office Annoyances Fast

Nov 22, 2010
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PCWorld: How To Fix MS Office Annoyances Fast

How to remove auto-correct entries that automatically change the characters you type to something you don’t want, how to restore Office 2003-style menus, how to update the Normal style and how to delete outdated email addresses from auto-complete lists: this short article shows you how to make Office behave.


“It’s hard to be truly productive when your productivity suite isn’t optimized to your work style. Here are several tweaks for Microsoft Office that you can do in just a few minutes.

Remove AutoCorrect Entries in Office
30 seconds If you don’t want “…” to become an ellipsis or “—” to turn into a page-wide horizontal line, or if you dislike any other automatic “corrections” that Microsoft Office performs by default, follow these steps.”

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