Betalogue14h ago

Far too frequently for my tastes, MS Word's automatic replacement of straight apostrophes with curly ones seizes up and replaces the wrong letter. Right now, I have a document where I can reproduce this as will. Hence this recording.

Of course, as soon as I close and reopen the document, the problem will be gone.

This has been going on for YEARS.

Sigh.

Show threadBetalogue

Actually, nope. It’s still happening after I close and reopen the document. It’s even still happening after I quit and relaunch Word. Is it — gasp! — reproducible?

That would assume that there’s nothing else specific to my work environment that makes this happen. (And I haven’t tried rebooting. My patience has limits.)

In any case, I don’t know anyone at Microsoft who would be willing to even look at this. So there’s no point. (I am still archiving the document in this state, just in case.)

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Show threadRiccardo Mori14h ago
@betalogue That’s bonkers. I absolutely feel all the frustration this certainly brings.
Show threadBetalogue10h ago
@morrick It’s one of the many annoyances caused by being forced to use Microsoft products on a daily basis. Like other software juggernauts (including Apple), Microsoft has no proper mechanism for processing user feedback and bug reports in a way that ensures that problems like these end up being fixed. They don’t care. It works “well enough”. (Apple used to be better. Not anymore.)