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Article: COMPUTER'S SPELLING FEATURE TRIPS WRITER
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1997
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Sandi Radoja is a legal secretary. She lives in Cedar Lake.
If you write a lot of letters on the computer - as opposed to the old reliable typewriter, you may have noticed a delightful little game that plays out before you every time you hit the magic spell-checker button.
You have to love the spell-checker feature. It's handy, to say the least. There are a few words, for example, that I know exactly how to spell but I just can't seem to get my fingers to hit the right keys. I know the word is "board," but my fingers always want to spell it "baord." But because of my trusty little helper the spell-checker, I just blow right ...