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December 21

Festive fun (1): The prospect of Whitby

On Sunday I was typing the following on a Word document:

'Easter date change arouses Rumanians: people disobey Orthodox Synod's Decree

Towards the end my finger slipped off one of the keys (I was touch typing) and Word typed the following:

'Easter date change arouses Rumanians: people disobey Orthodox Synod's December ree

How does this happen? Is Word's output predictive? 31.124.153.198 (talk) 14:32, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

just a guess (I don't use Word): did you add a space: "Dec ree"? If so the spell checker may have thought that "Dec" was an abbreviation for December. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 14:48, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... and on a standard QWERTY keyboard the C key is just above the space bar. --Lambiam 23:46, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MS Word has a feature known as "AutoComplete".^[1] When forced to use MS Word I start by turning AutoCorrect and AutoComplete off, as they rarely make a change I find helpful. --Lambiam 00:00, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was off the ball again when I came to print the document - on Word this is a two-stage process. Clicking "print" brought up a notice which I only spotted after I had clicked on the square "print" tab which caused it to disappear. The opening words were "Before publishing this document, check..." I guess this is some kind of copyright notice and it's a standard wording. Does anyone know what the standard wording is? 31.124.153.198 (talk) 18:09, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]