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October 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:55 PM

Update: People Still Smarter than Computers!

Jonathan & Margaret over on the Word blog have some nice words about the contextual spellchecker . They mention a well-known (but anonymous) poem, “Ode to My Spell Checker”--just the sort of thing the contextual spellchecker ought to handle, you might
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Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:44 AM

The Dutch spelling reform in Microsoft Office

[Une version en fran ç ais de ce blog est disponible ici: http://blogs.msdn.com/correcteurorthographiqueoffice/archive/2006/10/29/la-r-forme-de-l-orthographe-en-n-erlandais-dans-microsoft-office.aspx ] A few days ago, a Dutch-speaking school from Gent,
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 4:41 PM

Team tester finds Contextual Spelling success - in just plain old Office use!

I love CSS [Contextual Spelling]! I basically use spellcheckers to correct typing mistakes (I'm a fast but careless typer), and until now I've been annoyed that I have to go back and retype stuff that was real words. Now I have CSS to do that for me!
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:25 PM

Errant entry “denitrified” in Word 97

Yes, our spellchecker was responsible for the errant “denitrified”. But not since Word 97. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003629.html -- James Lyle (Test Lead)
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