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[schrag]

I've used Spell Catcher for some years without trouble. I just upgraded to Mac OS 10.6.3 and Spell Catcher 10.3.6 and encountered an odd bug.

I am writing in MS Word 2008 (12.2.6). I finish a paragraph, hit return, and use a function key to start a new style (e.g., Heading 2). I then enter a shortcut. Spell Catcher then deletes the paragraph return and pastes in a special character and the expanded reference, both in "MS Reference San Serif" font.

This only happens when I switch styles in MS word immediately before typing a shorthand.

Any advice?

Thanks.

[Evan Gross]

schrag, on 18 August 2010 - 08:50 PM, said:

I've used Spell Catcher for some years without trouble. I just upgraded to Mac OS 10.6.3 and Spell Catcher 10.3.6 and encountered an odd bug.

I am writing in MS Word 2008 (12.2.6). I finish a paragraph, hit return, and use a function key to start a new style (e.g., Heading 2). I then enter a shortcut. Spell Catcher then deletes the paragraph return and pastes in a special character and the expanded reference, both in "MS Reference San Serif" font.

This only happens when I switch styles in MS word immediately before typing a shorthand.

Any advice?

Thanks.

What's the exact function key (or keyboard shortcut) you're using to start a new style?

Can you tell me more about this "special character" that you say is being pasted in?

If you start a new style some other (keyboard-less) way, does this still happen?

Is this something you've always done in Word 2008, that worked fine before you updated your version of Spell Catcher X? If so, can you recall what version of Spell Catcher you were previously using? If so, were you also using Mac OS X 10.6.x?

[schrag]

Evan Gross, on 18 August 2010 - 11:01 PM, said:

What's the exact function key (or keyboard shortcut) you're using to start a new style?

Can you tell me more about this "special character" that you say is being pasted in?

If you start a new style some other (keyboard-less) way, does this still happen?

Is this something you've always done in Word 2008, that worked fine before you updated your version of Spell Catcher X? If so, can you recall what version of Spell Catcher you were previously using? If so, were you also using Mac OS X 10.6.x?

Thanks for getting back to me.

1. Your questions made me realize this is in fact a function key problem, not a heading problem or even a Word problem. The problem does not appear when I select a style from the drop down menu or a toolbar. It does appear when I do an expansion immediately after using a function key. It also appears in other applications, e.g. Text Wrangler.

2. In Word, the special characters are variations on a lower case a. For example, a with a tilde, a with a long mark, a with what appears to be a colon following it. In Text Wrangler, I get a very strange symbol labeled "private use." In Mail, just empty squares.

3. The previous machine was a Powerbook G4 running OS 10.5.8, Spell Catcher 10.3.6.

I should add that in the Keyboard Pane of System Preferences, I did not check the box for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys." In other words, to use them in an application, I hold down the fn button. If I hit a function key without the button (e.g., to brighten the screen with F2) I do not have the problem.

Thanks,

Zach