Beyond the floating-point problems, there's also the automatic name capitalization, the automatic replacement of "teh" for "the", the automatic conversions of n

Beyond the floating-point problems, there's also the automatic name capitalization, the automatic replacement of "teh" for "the", the automatic conversions of numbers into dates, and many more. Everyday practice gets me a bit more and more annoyed at all the automatisms that software office packages come with. And they are nearly all on by default! It takes a skilled person about 10 minutes to disable nearly all automatisms in MSWord or in OpenOffice Write, in several menus. In MSExcel, I don't even know where to look myself (having switched to Gnumerics long ago). We would all appreciate one single button that says: "Don't do anything unless I told you to."