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to: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES
from: LAWRENCE KELLIE
date: 1997-03-05 04:28:00
subject: table-driven macros

 > I've been working on ease-of-maintenance macros. Where a macro is
 > performing a series of operations, such as find&replace, for a
 > variety of strings, it makes double sense to encode the "find"
 > and "replace" strings in a table document, and have the macro
 > open the document as a driver.
 > Here's an example. Suppose I want to fix up a slew of
 > typographical errors throughout documents. I write a FixTypos
 > macro, then build a table:
I realize that your example is just that, an example.  However,
1.  How do you know in advance what the spelling errors of the particular 
person will be?
2.  Instead of spending time creating a macro, if you know those errors, why 
not just use AutoCorrect?
3.  Why not train the user to spell check the document?
4.  Why not train the user to spell correctly in the first place?  
Lawrence
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