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How do you (turn off smart quotes) In Word 97-2003, it's under Tools > AutoCorrect Options. In Word 2007 it's under Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options. Either place, you can turn off unhelpful features like "smart quotes" and "capitalize things that you think are the beginnings...

Someone needs to just do this. I started on something similar once like 3 years ago but then I got busy with a project or some crap and I never finished it. It's done. http://philgroce.com/software/qbtools-1.0.0.tar.gz I've been using this for TRASH since I got sick of Word, around 1997. (I was sic...

I agree that the subtitle should not have been underlined. In games seris like the Legend of Zelda, the subtitle is necesarry but in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (a game obscure enough already) I felt that needing the subtitle was just overkill. Luckily I was able to pull out the subtitle when I was prompted (I ...

outside of pet areas, 3 Veronica Mars, 2 Friday Night Lights, 2 Studio 60 q's say hi. Glib, but not factually correct: Veronica Mars: Only two mentions. There's a Rob Thomas TU and a bonus part on Jason Dohring (in the context of being a second-gen Scientologist) Friday Night Lights: The word "...

Nearly 300 hits for "Great Dictator" and "Fooey," its not like its unknown. It was his title, what with it being a play on Fuhrer and all. What it was was clear knowledge equivalence getting screwed and in retrospect it should seem obvious that, at the least, a tu whose answer w...

FWIW, video games were capped at 1/1 for the tournament. This is interesting because, as Coelacanth's post confirms, I'm sure I'm not the only person who thought there seemed to be way more than that. As I noted above, however, this may simply have been because I don't know anything about them, alt...

Quickfire comments: Video games: enough already. 1/1 per round is plenty. I'm not looking at the question set, but some rounds seemed to contain 2/2 or even 2/3 either way....I recognize that these games have a place in the TRASH canon, but when more than 10% of the questions are about them it make...