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Users claimed they’d never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles
A company's use of an outdated MS Word document for recording orders led to confusion when a new employee, Mitch, panicked over red underlines caused by Word's spell checker. Cooper, a staff member, explained that the red lines flagged SKUs as non-dictionary words and suggested disabling the spell checker or ignoring the warnings.
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