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Dick Margulis:
<While I can't really disagree with you about the quality of software
grammar and spelling checkers (and there is a LOT that could be improved
with a modest investment if anyone cared to make it), I still see these
tools as having value if used appropriately.>
I agree. I find the red-squiggles and green-squiggles too distracting (most
code gets plastered with them, making it difficult to spot real errors in
among the false positives) so I switch them off when editing in Word. But I
try to always make time, right at the end of the editing process, to do one
long pass through the document with the grammar/spellchecker, stopping at
every query. Nine times out of ten, the "errors" are nothing of the kind.
Nine times out of ten, even the "errors" aren't terribly important. But
there's always the hundredth error that it picks up, plus (IMO) the value
that it forces you to do a long, slow, final readthrough, element by
element, of a text I usually *think* I already know all too well.
Jane Carnall
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