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1. HOW TO MAKE MY MICROSOFT WORD DEFAULT SETTINGS HOW TO
2. HOW TO MAKE MY MICROSOFT WORD DEFAULT SETTINGS DRIVERS

Apple pushed Google Maps off the iPhone and iPad in September 2012 even though the maps were notably worse (though they're improved), Apple Maps was the default. Defaults are things like: "Which browser opens when you click a link?" or: "What maps app opens for map-related stuff?"ĭefaults are powerful – and dangerous: Microsoft was taken to court because it made Internet Explorer the default browser on all Windows machines the fact that it used its Windows monopoly to do it displeased judges in the US and Europe. To be clear, things like brightness, volume, Wi-Fi connection are settings. I'm happy to explore what other settings or possibilities exist – but you discover how most people will experience the device by using the defaults. That's why when I'm testing any equipment I try it with the defaults untouched. No surprise! Most people didn't bother to type in a tip they just hit the 20% or 25% button. Or there were three quick options, for 20%, 25% or 30%. You could also input a tip, touching the onscreen buttons.

HOW TO MAKE MY MICROSOFT WORD DEFAULT SETTINGS DRIVERS

In 2007, New York City obliged cab drivers to start taking credit cards that meant putting in touchscreens to take payments. (Pressing the "Ctrl" key together with "F" – or on an Apple computer, the "Cmd" key and "F" – brings up a box to hunt for any text you type in the document, browser window, or similar.) "This is on a sample size of thousands," Dan Russell, a Google researcher, told the Atlantic.

HOW TO MAKE MY MICROSOFT WORD DEFAULT SETTINGS HOW TO

Meanwhile, researchers at Google discovered that more than 90% of people don't know how to use Ctrl-F to find a piece of text in a document. And "zero" in the config file meant "no autosave". Why? Because a programmer inside Microsoft had set the configuration file to all zeroes for simplicity. Even though there was a fantastically useful autosave feature but it was off by default. To their amazement, they discovered that l ess than 5% had made any changes.

These were anonymous, because the researchers just wanted to find out what people actually preferred, so they could have those set as the defaults. The truth of this was revealed to some Microsoft researchers, who in the early days of Microsoft Word asked lots of people to send them their configuration files.