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[semperfiona]

Dear Microsoft Word:

When I tell you to stop using smart quotes, don't you think I also mean
I don't want curly apostrophes in my autocorrections!

Love,
An annoyed user who just spent half an hour correcting the
autocorrections table

Comments

[wyrd-sane.livejournal.com]

At least you're not trying to do important genetics research with MS Excel. That too can be messed up by oh-so-helpful "user friendly" features:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002912.html