| Author | Message | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Because it was too clever, it meant that I couldn't fulfil a basic task | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Microsoft Windows? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 08:31 pm: Microsoft Windows? yope  | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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A program then? or a web site? Did it ask an intrusive question? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 08:45 pm: A program then? yes or a web site? no Did it ask an intrusive question? no | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Web browser? email? word processor? spreadsheet? database? presentation? PIM? FTP? chat? graphics? game? music? video? text editor? compression? antivirus? compiler? operating system? | ||
| Haenlomal (Haenlomal)
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accounting package? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 08:58 pm: Web browser? email? word processor? this one spreadsheet? database? presentation? PIM? FTP? chat? graphics? game? music? video? text editor? compression? antivirus? compiler? operating system? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Haenlomal (Haenlomal) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 09:05 pm: accounting package? no | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Is it MS Word? (version relevant?) | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Or are you still using a MAC? | ||
| Ian (Image)
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Hmm... that seems like someone has a negative view of Macintoshes.... I personnally much prefer my operating system to windows.... Was the word prossessor trying to correct something for you? Indentation? Spacing? Capitals? Spelling? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Hmm... that sounds like someone has a paranoia about being a minority-mac... there was nothing negative intended what so ever. I just seem to remember that Lynne used a MAC | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:23 pm: Is it MS Word? (version relevant?) yes, version not too relevant By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:27 pm: Or are you still using a MAC? I am indeed, but not relevant here Was the word prossessor trying to correct something for you? it did 'correct' something Indentation? Spacing? Capitals? Spelling? this is closest | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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Grammar? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By David Burn (Woubit) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 11:43 pm: Grammar? no | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Grampa? Did the the program assume you were trying to do something else? American language relevant? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 11:59 pm: Grampa? no, he's totally innocent Did the the program assume you were trying to do something else? yessish American language relevant? nope | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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were you simply typing? or were you using the toolbars or menus or some form of formatting? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:05 am: were you simply typing? yes or were you using the toolbars or menus or some form of formatting? no | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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This "basic task": was it to type what you wanted to type? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By David Burn (Woubit) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:09 am: This "basic task": was it to type what you wanted to type? no | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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blooper I had been simply typing, but the task involved a tool. | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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was it from: Format? Tools? Edit? File? View? Insert? Table? Other? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:16 am: was it from: Format? Tools? Edit? this one File? View? Insert? Table? Other? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Cut? Copy? Paste? Find? Replace? Go to? | ||
| Simon Downham (Beroean)
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Undo? Select all? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:29 am: Cut? Copy? Paste? Find? this one Replace? Go to? By Simon Downham (Beroean) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 12:30 am: Undo? Select all? | ||
| Martin Schwenk (Trickymartin)
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Did you want to use the searh function at all? Did you use it? Did you use a normal (string) search? one using regular expressions or the likes? Did it find something? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By Martin Schwenk (Trickymartin) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 09:51 am: Did you want to use the searh function at all? yes Did you use it? yes Did you use a normal (string) search? yes one using regular expressions or the likes? yes Did it find something? NO | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did you enter a normal search string but it was interpreted as a regular expression? or vice versa? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 02:39 pm: Did you enter a normal search string but it was interpreted as a regular expression? or vice versa? I'm not sure what you mean here, but I'm pretty sure the answer is no | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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A regular expression is a special kind of search string that lets you look for things like "this followed by either that or any number of those" and such Were you trying to search for a whole word but it searched for part of a word? or vice versa? Did it search the correct document? Were you searching for a word which you had spelled incorrectly, and the spelling checker had already automatically corrected it without you noticing, so that when you searched for the incorrect spelling it was no longer there? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 07:14 pm: A regular expression is a special kind of search string that lets you look for things like "this followed by either that or any number of those" and such thanks, but not that Were you trying to search for a whole word but it searched for part of a word? no or vice versa? no Did it search the correct document? yes Were you searching for a word which you had spelled incorrectly, and the spelling checker had already automatically corrected it without you noticing, so that when you searched for the incorrect spelling it was no longer there? yes with a bit of an ish. and that ish is what you need to discover | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Okay, let's narrow that down a bit Were you searching for a word? a phrase? something else? did you think the word/etc was in the document when you searched for it? was it? had you put it there? if so, had you spelled it correctly? had it been changed? without your knowledge? by a spelling checker? did you spell it correctly when you searched for it? did you spell it the same way as you had spelled it when you typed it in the document (if you did)? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 08:52 pm: Okay, let's narrow that down a bit Were you searching for a word? yes a phrase? no something else? no did you think the word/etc was in the document when you searched for it? yes was it? yes had you put it there? yes if so, had you spelled it correctly? yessish had it been changed? yes without your knowledge? yes by a spelling checker? an automatic one, not one that I deliberately used did you spell it correctly when you searched for it? yessish did you spell it the same way as you had spelled it when you typed it in the document (if you did)? yes what's the ish | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Did it "correct" your British spelling to an American version of the word? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 09:35 pm: Did it "correct" your British spelling to an American version of the word? no | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Your spelling: is it an English word? is it a real word? is it a proper noun? is it a number? is it in the OED? is it hyphenated? does it have other punctuation? or an accent? Word's "corrected" spelling: is it an English word? is it a real word? is it a proper noun? is it a number? is it in the OED? is it hyphenated? does it have other punctuation? or an accent? does it have the same meaning as your spelling? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:44 pm: Your spelling: is it an English word? no is it a real word? yes is it a proper noun? yes is it a number?no is it in the OED? I don't know as I have a Collins is it hyphenated? no does it have other punctuation? no or an accent? no Word's "corrected" spelling: is it an English word? no is it a real word? yes is it a proper noun? yes is it a number? no is it in the OED? I don't know as I have a Collins is it hyphenated? no does it have other punctuation? no or an accent? yes does it have the same meaning as your spelling? yes Sufficient information there to déclair a spoiler: ********** SPOILER ********** In a document that I had written I was searching back for the word eclair. I hadn't known how to put an accent in, and for my purposes, it wasn't necessary. But of course Microsoft Word wouldn't mind its own business and changed it without my realising. As a result, all eclairs seemed to have disappeared. | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Good puzzle! Any time I'm forced to use MS Word, I start by turning off any feature whose name begins with "Smart" or "Auto"... | ||
| Tricia Harvey (Trixie)
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Me too, Wunderland! MS Word drives me nuts! I reckon I'm a pretty good speller so I never have the Spellcheck activated and as for the grammar, words fail me (no pun intended - but on second thoughts...!) Just don't get me started on tables, bullet points, hanging indents ....! Sorry, Lynne, I was too late to join in the puzzle. It was a good one! | ||
| Mosquito (Mosquito)
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If you had Chambers dictionary instead of Collins, you would not have been surprised by the disappearance of the eclairs, as the former defines them as "A cake, long in shape but short in duration, with cream filling and icing". |
