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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [OT] Sideways Smileys
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:36:52 +0100
Quantum said on 12:37/21 May 98...

> Ahhh... one of the coolest things that microsoft ever did (hmmm were there
> others?) was to change :) into a real (read as right side up) smiley face
> in Word - now even non computer literate people can understand me when I
> type out letters :)

That was I believe the first thing I took OUT of the auto-correction
feature in Word 95 and 97... If I type a smiley, I _want_ a sideways one,
not one of those T-shirt/sticker/acid house smileys from WingDings. For
those, it's easy enough to go to add it as a symbol in the text...

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