Microsoft Word Hates You

[talkingsoup]

Well, it's finally happened. Microsoft Word popped up with a message saying, "You have too many spelling and grammar errors for us to keep advertising it with those annoying red and green lines, so fuck you and check the spellcheck if you want to know how much you suck at spelling and grammar!"

If that's what the box really said, I'd like Microsoft a lot better.

But what can I say? Most of it isn't my fault. Word doesn't recognize "Kail" or "Taenailo" or "tiern" or "Massori" as words, so that's several thousand right there. Plus there's a lot of fragment sentences--the good kind, the kind that add flavor. Mostly they show up when Taenailo takes the mic, (rarely), because his mind just works in fragment sentences.

The thing that sucks most is I won't know if I made simple mistakes, like spelling "the" as "teh" since it won't redline it for me. The red lines do come in handy sometimes. Ah well.

This actually happened when I was writing "Taenailo", the original story about cats, mostly because everyone's name in there was unrecognizable. Never did it in Penta, though. Probably because by then I'd discovered the "Add to Dictionary" button in the spellcheck box. Which is very helpful. I'd advise anyone who uses Word and writes characters with names like "Taenailo" to just add all the names to the dictionary. Spares you a lot of trouble.

Comments

[calliopeeternal.livejournal.com]

I always hated the little underline thingies on Word. It'd always underline the words I actually knew were wrong, like Tallain and Lyraine and whatnot, and whenever I actually spelled something wrong it was usually "it's" instead of "its" and of course the program doesn't realize that. Not to mention the fragments. Grr! And passive-whatever-ness! I liked it. I used it a lot. But noooo, Word would always correct it for me...
But yeah, thank God for the "add to dictionary" option. Makes spell checks a lot less time-consuming.

[talkingsoup]

Yeah, for the most part the lines just aren't really helpful. If they could point out problems like "its" and "it's" that'd be nice. Sometimes they come in handy, but not often. And man--even some great writers will tell you passive voice and fragment sentences can be used in certain situations! <--look, didn't I just use passive voice?

[calliopeeternal.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's why i don't write on the PC, even though I have a lot of old drafts on there that would make good references. Macs don't tell you to do things you don't wanna do. ^-^ *lurves Macses*

[talkingsoup]

Lol, yeah, I'm a PC girl through and through. It's just what I grew up on. Not big on the whole PC vs. Mac rivalry--I just prefer my PC, haha.