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Re: Odd typing in MSWord
From: Deborah McMahon <d.mcmahon () telesciences com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:49:34 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Federated Information Security wrote:
I ran across something rather odd today I'm hoping someone might have thoughts on. One of my users had their XP SP1 laptop on the corporate network and was editing a Word document with office 2002. They pasted something in a table, and it looked like someone started typing in their document. It was slow, typical typing speed, and lasted for about 10 minutes (I actually got a chance to see it). The text was nonsense words, like the kind you often see in spam nowadays.
any chance the user has an installed program that does speech to text or speech recognition? if so, they may have triggered it somehow and the computer was trying to type what it believed it was hearing ..... deborah --- Deborah McMahon <mailto:d.mcmahon () telesciences com> Information Services Telesciences, Inc. <http://www.telesciences.com> 2000 Midlantic Drive, Suite 410, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Tel: +1.856.866.1000 ext. 4143 Fax: +1.856.866.0185 ---
Current thread:
- Odd typing in MSWord Federated Information Security (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Jeff Garrett (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Tom Baker (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Randy (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Jay D. Dyson (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Deborah McMahon (Mar 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Felix . Simmons (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Rubin, Benjamin (Mar 04)
- RE: Odd typing in MSWord Federated Information Security (Mar 04)
- Re: Odd typing in MSWord Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (Mar 07)