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I knew I wouldn't like it, but figured I could ignore the far-too-crowded menu-list at the top of the page until I learned how to customize it.

BUT -- I can't find how to turn off "smart quotes". This is vital; I'm typing testing reports. If I copy/paste the final version into the internet program our school uses, the smart quotes will turn into a string of unintelligible characters.

I also can't find "Help", which might be useful for questions like this.

Anyone know where either of these are hiding?

ETA: Found the answer here. But, for reference, I'll lay it out because I'll have trouble remembering it:

Click 'File'
Click 'Options' button
Click 'Proofing'
In the 'Auto Correct Options' view
. . . . Click the 'Auto Correct Options' Button
In the 'Auto Format' view (finally!), uncheck 'Straight Quotes with Smart Quotes'
Click 'OK'

Stupid. That's two steps more than in Word 2000, and it's a lot more hidden than previously. So much for "improvements".
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Some of us (guilty!) are accustomed to using HTML code automatically as we type a post for LJ. When we've written a story for posting to LJ, the <i> and </i> already surround the italics, with similar relevant codes for bold, center, etc.

Other folks prefer to let a posting client handle the scutwork. But, sometime or other (like, maybe you want to make a fake webpage), you may need to add the codes to an uncoded Word document that has italics, bold, or whatever. If it's a short story, you can just read through and insert the relevant codes. But if you use a lot of emphasis, or if the story is more than a few pages long, it's easy to miss some. If MS Word is your word processor of choice, you can make it do the searching for you...

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