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Susan,
I discovered, through trial and error, that strange changes to the middles, beginnings and endings of certain words follow after you use the 'Find' and 'Change to' button (or equivalent) in your programme. Particularly if the word you change and replace is a short one. A good for instance is if you change the name of a character from, say 'Tom' to 'Fred', any references to tomatos will appear as 'Fredatos', or, if you're writing a jungle story, 'tom-tom' to 'fred-fred', or sci-fi, 'atom' to 'afred', or a medical, from 'anatomical' to 'anafredical'. This can be both irritating and funny.
When I first saw it, it took me some time to realise what was happening, then it dawned; now I'm very cautious when I use the facility.
MJ
Last edited by Michael J Hunt; 05-23-2010 at 02:55 PM.
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