The title of this blog, Cleanup on Aisle 7 (partly inspired by Mr. Mom) is actually something I never uttered in my time as a store employee. I did however perform many such cleanups. There is nothing like trying to use a mop and a bucket to clean up three jars of chunky tomato pasta sauce from a linoleum floor. I plan to use this column to periodically feature some of my favorite tomato sauce spills on the web. If you are a writer and you are not using Word,
Office 2007 Standard, you are driving a shopping cart around the store haphazardly. You may hit the grapefruits or the jars of pasta sauce. If you do,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, I'll try not to stare at you as I grab the mop. Today, however,
Office 2010 Pro Plus, I'm going to feature an example that is actually a secret shame of ours. It's a case where we strapped a lawnmower engine onto your shopping cart and the extra power slammed you square into the teriyaki sauce. If you were using a previous version of Word (prior to Word 2010) and had tried to write a sentence like "She pre-emptively took the cookies from his hand" our speller would flag the hyphenated word "pre-emptively" and suggest a set of possible corrections. The first possible correction in the list was "pre-emotively." It turns out that a lot of people just blindly pick the first correction in the list,
Office 2010 Professional Key, without realizing that in this case it happens to be gibberish. So blame Word for this every time you see it. It's probably our fault. Thankfully we've corrected it in Word 2010. Speaking of mishaps,
Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, I just got paged because there's a product manager down in the hallway. She tripped over a creative brief and smashed right into an errant media buy. - Chris Bryant <div