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master_objectist
When pressing Shift-F3 in Word to adjust the case of the selected text, the
"Proper Case" function has never worked properly. To wit, it always
capitalizes the first letter of every word instead of capitalizing the words
that should be capitalized in a title. For instance, it would capitalize "How
to Be Attractive to the Woman You Love" as "How To Be Attractive To The Woman
You Love," ignoring the fact that the two uses of the preposition "to" and
the article "the" should not be capitalized unless they are the first word of
the title, which in this case they are not. Word has been around well over 10
years, and in that time, this really should have been fixed. It's little
things like this that make Microsoft look like they can't see the forest for
the trees and like they're too busy managing their stock price to sell
competently-developed software. Take a step back and clean it up, and then
take another step back and clean up all the errors in the link libraries for
your various development environments. There are plenty of people around who
are quite capable with x86 assembly language, and a crew of 10 could clean
those libraries up within a quarter, and you'd be shocked at how much smaller
and faster everything would run if you did, not to mention secure and
bug-free. I know it can be done because I was part of a crew that did it once
with the Microsoft C libraries. The finished libaries were one-third the size
of the originals, bug-free, and executed about 30 times faster than the
originals, and we did nothing but strip out redundant and inert code and fix
what was left so that it worked as the manual said that it should. This was
in 1992 or so, and it still hasn't been done at Microsoft 13 years later. If
we could do it, with the little time and resources we had, there's no reason
why a company the size of Microsoft can't. Stop piling on the "Band-Aids" and
heal the wounds.
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"Proper Case" function has never worked properly. To wit, it always
capitalizes the first letter of every word instead of capitalizing the words
that should be capitalized in a title. For instance, it would capitalize "How
to Be Attractive to the Woman You Love" as "How To Be Attractive To The Woman
You Love," ignoring the fact that the two uses of the preposition "to" and
the article "the" should not be capitalized unless they are the first word of
the title, which in this case they are not. Word has been around well over 10
years, and in that time, this really should have been fixed. It's little
things like this that make Microsoft look like they can't see the forest for
the trees and like they're too busy managing their stock price to sell
competently-developed software. Take a step back and clean it up, and then
take another step back and clean up all the errors in the link libraries for
your various development environments. There are plenty of people around who
are quite capable with x86 assembly language, and a crew of 10 could clean
those libraries up within a quarter, and you'd be shocked at how much smaller
and faster everything would run if you did, not to mention secure and
bug-free. I know it can be done because I was part of a crew that did it once
with the Microsoft C libraries. The finished libaries were one-third the size
of the originals, bug-free, and executed about 30 times faster than the
originals, and we did nothing but strip out redundant and inert code and fix
what was left so that it worked as the manual said that it should. This was
in 1992 or so, and it still hasn't been done at Microsoft 13 years later. If
we could do it, with the little time and resources we had, there's no reason
why a company the size of Microsoft can't. Stop piling on the "Band-Aids" and
heal the wounds.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...33a9d9&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Klaus