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Winding down...
Feb. 19th, 2007 09:36 pmWord is doing something totally weird. It's coming up with new, and wrong, auto-corrects.
For example, if I type the word "which", Word adds another "h" to it. If I type the word "developed", it turns it into "developd". (Not only that, but just now, I tried to insert the missing "e" and by golly, Word refuses to let me do it!
Hopefully, this is some kind of glitch that will go away and never rear its ugly little head again once I shut down the machine for the night. In any event, at least the Word spell-checker doesn't agree with whatever demon is playing havoc with my text.
* * * In addition to sending off the two items due today, I managed to OCR the document due next Monday, into what I think of as "raw" format, which basically means formatting and the content of tables. The 8000 source words are due next Monday.
I also polished off two new jobs, one of which is a Russian-to-English translation of a pre-segmented text from one of my new French clients. (Go figure.) Be that as it may, I must remember to update their word count, as a couple of the segments were, um, squirrely. (How does one express the concept of "squirrely" in French?)
Apropos of French, I took a couple of volumes of my mom's French literature text down from the shelf where they had been resting for, well, decades, with the idea of looking through them and perhaps asking my dad if I could have them. It turns out that both books are of the type of (I presume inexpensive) manufacture that requires the pages to be cut apart by the reader. I know this because... well... none of the pages have been cut apart!
I suppose it shall fall to me to do that.
It's getting late, and time to go to sleep. Two more days and a wakeup before I head back toward Texas.
Cheers...
UPDATE: The strange behavior seems "attached" to the file I was working on. 'Tis a conundrum for later delectation.
For example, if I type the word "which", Word adds another "h" to it. If I type the word "developed", it turns it into "developd". (Not only that, but just now, I tried to insert the missing "e" and by golly, Word refuses to let me do it!
Hopefully, this is some kind of glitch that will go away and never rear its ugly little head again once I shut down the machine for the night. In any event, at least the Word spell-checker doesn't agree with whatever demon is playing havoc with my text.
I also polished off two new jobs, one of which is a Russian-to-English translation of a pre-segmented text from one of my new French clients. (Go figure.) Be that as it may, I must remember to update their word count, as a couple of the segments were, um, squirrely. (How does one express the concept of "squirrely" in French?)
Apropos of French, I took a couple of volumes of my mom's French literature text down from the shelf where they had been resting for, well, decades, with the idea of looking through them and perhaps asking my dad if I could have them. It turns out that both books are of the type of (I presume inexpensive) manufacture that requires the pages to be cut apart by the reader. I know this because... well... none of the pages have been cut apart!
I suppose it shall fall to me to do that.
It's getting late, and time to go to sleep. Two more days and a wakeup before I head back toward Texas.
Cheers...
UPDATE: The strange behavior seems "attached" to the file I was working on. 'Tis a conundrum for later delectation.
