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Microsoft Word Decrees All High-School IT Teachers Were Wrong: Double Spaces Now Flagged as Typos

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 28 2020, @01:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-then-they-discovered-  dept.

martyb writes:

Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word:

One space good, two spaces bad? (This story appears near the end of the article; scroll down to see it.)

Finally, Microsoft found time to weigh in on the age-old debate of just how many spaces belong after a full stop (or "period"). Thanks to an update, Word will apparently treat two spaces as a typo and festoon a double-spaced document with red, squiggly lines unless told to ignore the rule.

A debate for the ages finally settled. Where do you stand? ⚔️ https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1253655739379470338

— Microsoft 365 (@Microsoft365) April 24, 2020

Not everyone is impressed with change; this hack, for example, has fond memories of bashing away on the keys of a typewriter back in the day and slapping the spacebar twice between sentences [...]. It has proven a hard habit to break. Others, such as Jason Howard, senior project manager on the Windows Insider Team, called for a poll on the matter.

@Microsoft365 has thrown down the gauntlet. Apparently #MicrosoftWord will now flag double-spacing between sentences as an error.

Which side will you pick? Choose wisely...

— Jason Howard (@NorthFaceHiker) April 24, 2020

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  • (Score: 2) by corey on Tuesday April 28 2020, @11:17PM (1 child)

    by corey (2202) on Tuesday April 28 2020, @11:17PM (#988046)

    I came here to say this. Looks like everyone else feels the same. Out of my way, Microsoft, just let me type what I want.

    I usually have autocorrect turned off anyway.

    This made me remember a paper I read over 10 years ago about LaTeX. The crux of it came down to, you should not be interested or distracted by formatting and appearance when writing something. That's what LaTeX provides. You produce the text, in pure text format, and then worry about formatting it later. I guess these days, everything is about appearance and "brand". Anyway, I tried to dig up the paper but I can't find it. This looked similar though:

    https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/latex.html [dedoimedo.com]

    He did some tests, for example writing maths functions, and it was faster in LaTeX.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 29 2020, @12:32AM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday April 29 2020, @12:32AM (#988061) Journal

    Why would you type with autocorrect turned off? That's just asking tpysos.

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