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only if you can turn it off and keep it off

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 21, 2005 02:49 AM
Sure, a comments and a revision system similar to the "reviewing toolbar" and "track changes" in MS Office is OK I suppose. As long as I can toggle the bloody thing OFF and keep it OFF forever, even when I open a document created by someone else.

Our company "upgraded" me to Office XP. Now it is my number one annoyance. If only I could find the resource file for the reviewing toolbar or a registry setting. I'd even delete the toolbar's resource file and refuse to do a "detect and repair" if possible.

Lucky for me I found out how to stop MS Word from auto-importing other people's styles and creating a million new ones with every formatting change. And I've found out how to kill the stupid paperclip, auto-grammer and auto-formatting, and auto-spellcheck.

And...well, I hate MS Office. It is crap. Unfortunately OpenOffice seems to be emulating a lot of the crap. How do I turn off the stupid lightbulb thingy forever?

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