How-to: Microsoft Word, Annoying?

Rick Broida of lifehacker.com has written a blog post with some great tips for personalizing Microsoft Word and it's extremely annoying habit of making your decisions for you: Make Microsoft Word less annoying. If any of these MS Word tendencies have irritated you for just about ever, now is your moment of revenge. And if none of the settings Broida details does the trick for you, you can still use the same general instructions to browse around Word's options and maybe find that elusive checkmarked setting that is driving you to distraction.

• Turn off unnecessary toolbars
• Streamline the toolbars you keep
• Add a word-count button
• Turn off hyperlinks
• Expand the recently used documents list
• Turn off "smart quotes"
• Turn off entire-word selection
• Turn off automatic numbered lists
• Turn off superscripting and fractions
• Access full pull-down menus
• Ditch Word altogether (OpenOffice, anyone? Google Docs?)