Error Message of the Month

By Lawrence I. Charters

Washington Apple Pi Journal, Vol. 25, no. 3, May-June 2003, pp. 30.

Microsoft Word X tries hard to be helpful. As soon as you load a document, it
immediately starts scanning the document for spelling and grammatical errors,
and highlights them by underlining suspected errors in various colors.

That is, it tries to. But if there are “too many” errors, it gives up, displays a
message of surrender, and suggests that you manually start the error checking
process at some other time. The document in question was an economic policy released. by the White House.

There are too many spelling or grammatical errors in Administration economic policy to continue displaying them. To check the spelling and grammar of this document, choose Spelling and Grammar from the Tools menu.
There are too many spelling or grammatical errors in Administration economic policy to continue displaying them. To check the spelling and grammar of this document, choose Spelling and Grammar from the Tools menu.