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Thread #35067   Message #683453
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
05-Apr-02 - 02:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: The spell-checker name game
Subject: RE: BS: The spell-checker name game
Years ago, when I worked in a law firm word processing department, we had a bulletin board filled with this kind of stuff. The one that springs to mind was the one that convinced me NEVER to simply accept a "Search and Replace" without making sure it was really doing what you wanted it to do. I did a replace on an S Corporation filing and it changed "publicly held corporation" to, you guessed it, "pubicly held corporation," which gave a whole new meaning to "closely held stock"! Unfortunately, that actually got filed, so somewhere in Olympia, Washington, there's an officially formed corporation that's pubicly held.

NEVER trust a spell-checker. NEVER do an unattended Search and Replace, either. I was in hot water for some time over that one...

Lin