One superstitious belief that was used as an excuse by Filipinos to light up firecrackers on New Year’s Eve is that the explosion would drive out evil spirits as well as bad luck. I knew someone who ...

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What if your word processor could not only understand your needs but also anticipate them? With the 2025 update to Microsoft Word, that vision is closer to reality than ever. Packed with innovative ...

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool scooped the news about the impending impact on the 616 Marvel Universe over the posited end of the new Ultimate Universe (if it actually is) and how the Tony Stark-created ...

Mr. Tersigni is a cultural critic. Have you ever obeyed the suggestions of a digital writing assistant to replace a word or restructure a sentence without knowing how, why or even if it made your ...

Among other things, Microsoft Word saves information about the author in its documents and keeps a record of the changes made. This is often tied to specific people. Before passing a document to ...

After coming in as runner-up in 2024, Faizan Zaki bested opponent Sarvadnya Kadam in the 20th round of the competition Thursday night. The winning word? Éclaircissement. The Oxford English dictionary ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. If the spell checker isn’t working in Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 or 2016 and later), it might be because the settings are configured to ignore ...

Oddly, "misspell," a not-particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans most often misspell. Using Google Trends search data from the start of the year through ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — She’s the best when it ...

Get your spell check ready. With the National Spelling Bee right around the corner, the folks at WordUnscrambler.pro combed through Google data to find 2025’s most misspelled words in the US and for ...

A new fine-tuning feature for Microsoft 365 Copilot will enable the genAI assistant to suggest ideas to users on the fly, based on company-specific training. Microsoft Word’s spell check can already ...