{"id":1829,"date":"2008-05-20T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:19:14","slug":"on-frustrations-with-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"On Frustrations with Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just don&#8217;t <i>get<\/i> Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n<p>It decided, for some reason, that several paragraphs were misspelled.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>entire<\/i> paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p>Words like &#8220;the&#8221; were, at least according to Word, misspelled in those two paragraphs.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was underlined in red.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to run a spellcheck on the entire document.  Perhaps, I thought, this would kick Word out of its funk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, things that Word had decided previously were spelled correctly came up as being misspelled.  When, in fact, they weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Technology.<\/p>\n<p>I love it, but sometimes it will drive one to distraction.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that my custom dictionary has become too large.<\/p>\n<p>It <i>is<\/i> massive.  Over 2,000 entries.  Including &#8220;Chrismahannukwanzukah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know why that would cause Word to go all weird on words like &#8220;ant&#8221; or &#8220;the.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stupid Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I just don&#8217;t get Microsoft Word. It decided, for some reason, that several paragraphs were misspelled. The entire paragraphs. Words like &#8220;the&#8221; were, at least according to Word, misspelled in those two paragraphs. Everything was underlined in red. I decided to run a spellcheck on the entire document. Perhaps, I thought, this would kick<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1829\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Frustrations with Word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[426,4124,4102],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-microsoft-word","tag-work","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}