Hi Drew and James; On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 08:08 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: > James Knott wrote: > > I believe you mean "ensure". When you insure something you agree to pay > > up, should anything go wrong. Ensure means to verify. > > Yes of course and thank you for that correction. > > I dare say that most native English speakers would make the mental > transformation of meaning naturally, from context. Perhaps not so for > those for whom English is their 2nd or 3rd language. > > An unintended consequence, perhaps, of "live" spell checkers in > everything - the act of proofing what I type anymore ( for this type of > correspondence at least ) is often a simple scan for flagged words. ;<) > that is as good an excuse as I can come up with at the moment anyway. > > Drew
I have always wanted two additional tools in OOo. One that I could turn on or off to flag "trouble words" , words that I might want to check for correct usage such as their/there, assure/ensure/insure, where/were etc. The second tool would be tied to a dictionary of acronyms that would allow me to type acronyms but would turn them into their full words -- much like an autocorrect facility. It is faster to type an acronym but often hard to decipher. -- Regards Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
