Excuse me for the exasperation...but I really HATE having a piece of
software telling me how to think.
I need to put together a worksheet for my class. I'm using the OO
Spreadsheet so I can get nice columns. Eight columns each containing
the chord for the corresponding measure. Something like:
a a a e E E E7 A
Not really that hard. (a = a minor -- A=a major -- two *_different_*
chords.) However because the first time an "a" chord is used it's minor
the auto correct feature insists that ALL "a" cords must be minor (what
lunacy!). The result is:
a a a e e e e7 a (please note that these two are
NOT the same.)
I've NEVER been able to turn this off, in spite of the help
instructions. Placing a quote mark before the "A" and the quote
prints. It's like trying to create a list of words using the
spreadsheet or word processor. SOME words begin with capital letters,
some don't. Changing that either makes the word wrong or changes the
meaning. Why is this NOT understood...
Similarly I have a budget spreadsheet using OO. I have a column for my
Health Savings Account (HSA). Of course the spreadsheet makes me use
"HAS".
May *I* be permitted to decide what information goes in the cells....please?
Exasportated in Seattle,
pHIL
--
Phil Morgan-Ellis
aka Ranger Beethoven
http://pmorg.net
"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the
questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign
tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be
able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now ...
Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke
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