Re: Spell Check Problem?

[cupton -at- syclone -dot- net]

I agree. It's a plot. My computer started doing the same thing yesterday
when I inserted a reference that ended up as "...en page 13." I couldn't
for the life of me fix it until I read the list today, and I discovered
that French, West Indies was the culprit.

Thanks, techwrlers!

> Katherine Darges wondered: <<My Word document, approx 30 pages, has
> suddenly (it wasn't doing this yesterday) started showing that little
> red underline on a dozen random words.  They aren't mispelled or
> strange words (because, operate, open...).  Just to be sure I wasn't
> missing something, I selected "because" and checked it with spell
> check.  The options I was given were all in FRENCH.  The same with each
> of the other "mispelled" words.  What the heck?  Where did the French
> come in all of a sudden on those few words?>>
>
> Clearly it's a French plot. I suspect your computer has been hijacked
> by anti-U.S. French cybercommandos intent on paying back your country
> for decades of perceived slights. <g> Here in Canada, I've seen similar
> problems with U.S. English becoming U.K. English, presumably for
> similarly sinister reasons. <g>
>
> This is one of those relatively minor document corruptions that strikes
> Word for no apparent reason... I suspect it has something to do with
> Word's gothically (and comically) ornate .doc file format, which makes
> documents vulnerable to occasional bit-flips. In effect, Word simply
> forgets what it's doing, and it's not always easy to make it remember
> again.
>

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