Hi gang, I have never felt more like a retired school teacher than I have since this thread started! <smile> I have found that using a spellchecker routinely makes its use a lot more tolerable than just using it once or twice to see if it works or not. It is a little like defragging a disk. If you only do it once a month or once a year it takes forever. But if you run it in an autoexec.bat file (remember those?) so it runs on every system startup, you hardly notice it at all. I have configured my mail program to use an alternative editor implicitly (i.e., always, without my asking) and instead of specifying an actual editor, I specify a very simple script. That script first runs the editor I want to use, and immediately afterward, it runs the spell checker. So when I compose an email message and his the editor's exit key I find myself in the spell checker. I have learned to quit checking as soon as I get to any included messages. In addition to satisfying my own anal retentive tendencies, the nice thing about a well spelled message is that the voice synthesizer behaves much much better. Okay everybody, class dismissed! Chuck On Sat, 4 May 2002, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Now, old Bill, I fully admit that these isn't spelled like cheese, > even though it sounds like it ought to be. However, unless there's an > extreme blooper like the poster who assured a budding concern that > their registry personnel must be on "autopilate", I think we can > interpret pretty well. I do agree that folks should use spell > checkers, but since I don't myself, at least not within email msgs, I > can't throw any stones. The walls of my house are made of glass. > > Ann P. > > -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (49% of Full)
