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make it easy to turn off the little paste option graphics
Using Word and Excel 2003 on Windows.
In both Excel and Word recent versions have these little Paste Option square graphics that appear when you paste text. When you click on the little square, it pops up a menu of choices with radio buttons, about how you want to handle formatting between source and target. I hate them. On many levels. The concept of helping with moving formatting from source to target is interesting, but I think that in Microsoft's zeal to add features, they have sacrificed the basic use of the program in order to serve a fairly sophisticated goal, and one that I believe doesn't serve all of their users. What's wrong with them? !) THEY BLOCK MY VIEW OF MY TEXT and 2) IT'S NOT OBVIOUS HOW TO GET RID OF THEM. I have repeatedly been in a situation where I am trying to do a series of cut and pastes, and literally have been unable to read what I pasted in because of the icons that pop up. I find myself leaning to the left or the right in a failed attempt to see behind them (I'm serious, it's that bad sometimes). When I try choosing all the radio button choices, none of them seem to dismiss the graphic, at least in Word. In Excel I have come up with a workaround that is to select some other text, in another cell, and sometimes it seems that the little box disappears. I move from computer to computer quite a bit, and so every time I use a new one I come up against this. I think I've figured out how to turn them off on my primary computer, but a little scouting here at a client has been unsuccessful and so I'm frustrated. Alternate implementations: 1. Just don't do it. Get rid of them. Bad UI, bad implementation to block my view of my data. Ever. Stop the madness. 2. Make sure there is _always_ a "Turn this feature off" choice on the dropdown. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS. If there is a way to turn it off somewhere else, I have sure been unsuccessful finding it - I can't even figure out what the name of the offending little formatting boxes are to look them up in the Help, let alone find where you turn them off. In the end, this seems like a feature that is aimed at non-power users. I am quite comfortable reformatting my text manually - it is possible Microsoft has data from some of their less experienced users that they can't, and need something like this. Even if I liked the feature, after I choose one of the alternatives, the little boxes stay displayed, what's up with that??? Please please please don't punish power users by making it hard to turn off the training wheels! Especially when they interfere with the basic purpose of the software, which is to enter text/numbers and then edit it. ---------------- 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/comm...et.f unctions |
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make it easy to turn off the little paste option graphics
Hi devinmckinney
See ToolsOptions...Edit -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "devinmckinney" wrote in message ... Using Word and Excel 2003 on Windows. In both Excel and Word recent versions have these little Paste Option square graphics that appear when you paste text. When you click on the little square, it pops up a menu of choices with radio buttons, about how you want to handle formatting between source and target. I hate them. On many levels. The concept of helping with moving formatting from source to target is interesting, but I think that in Microsoft's zeal to add features, they have sacrificed the basic use of the program in order to serve a fairly sophisticated goal, and one that I believe doesn't serve all of their users. What's wrong with them? !) THEY BLOCK MY VIEW OF MY TEXT and 2) IT'S NOT OBVIOUS HOW TO GET RID OF THEM. I have repeatedly been in a situation where I am trying to do a series of cut and pastes, and literally have been unable to read what I pasted in because of the icons that pop up. I find myself leaning to the left or the right in a failed attempt to see behind them (I'm serious, it's that bad sometimes). When I try choosing all the radio button choices, none of them seem to dismiss the graphic, at least in Word. In Excel I have come up with a workaround that is to select some other text, in another cell, and sometimes it seems that the little box disappears. I move from computer to computer quite a bit, and so every time I use a new one I come up against this. I think I've figured out how to turn them off on my primary computer, but a little scouting here at a client has been unsuccessful and so I'm frustrated. Alternate implementations: 1. Just don't do it. Get rid of them. Bad UI, bad implementation to block my view of my data. Ever. Stop the madness. 2. Make sure there is _always_ a "Turn this feature off" choice on the dropdown. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS. If there is a way to turn it off somewhere else, I have sure been unsuccessful finding it - I can't even figure out what the name of the offending little formatting boxes are to look them up in the Help, let alone find where you turn them off. In the end, this seems like a feature that is aimed at non-power users. I am quite comfortable reformatting my text manually - it is possible Microsoft has data from some of their less experienced users that they can't, and need something like this. Even if I liked the feature, after I choose one of the alternatives, the little boxes stay displayed, what's up with that??? Please please please don't punish power users by making it hard to turn off the training wheels! Especially when they interfere with the basic purpose of the software, which is to enter text/numbers and then edit it. ---------------- 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/comm...et.f unctions |
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