RE: I'm about to give up on "System i"

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep.. that's it. I do a lot of writing too, and you soon learn a couple
things:

1.  Google is your friend when it comes to M$ products (although sifting
through garbage is a little harder)
2.  Most of us don't know 99% of the features available in the latest M$
products (even Office 2000, which I still use!)  We still treat it like a
typewriter... :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:51 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: I'm about to give up on "System i"
>
>
> John,
>
> In Word, add an autocorrect - Replace 'System i' with 'System i'.
>
> Or, after you type System<space>i<space> press <ctrl>Z - which
> will perform
> an "undo" of the autocapitalizing.
>
>
> Or, since hardware no longer matters (you know, i5/OS on intel
> rumor), stop
> using 'System i' and start typing 'i5/OS' more often.
>
> Trevor
>
>
>
>
> On 9/24/07 8:29 PM, "John Earl" <john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > OK, I give up.  This is probably an easy problem to fix, but I haven't
> > solved it yet, and it is related (enough) to System i that David should
> > permit me to ask it here, but really it is an MS Word problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Every time I type "System i" and then put a space after the "i" MS Word
> > tries to capitalize it.  I realize this is because I use MS Word's
> > autocorrect feature and it assumes that I am typing the pronoun "I", but
> > it is annoying as hell, and I want to make it stop!
> >
> >
> >
> > I would settle for getting it to stop capitalizing all lone "I's", but
> > the perfect solution would be for it to recognize the string "System i"
> > and LEAVE THE DAMN "i" ALONE!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help out there?
>
>
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