Reading an e-newsletter a minute ago, I came across an error I see often. Can you find it in the sentence below?
The New Hampshire-based organization surveyed 117 senior executives and mangers around the globe for the survey, whose results were distributed April 26.
Yes. It’s those mangers again. And we can’t blame Microsoft Office. After all, manger is a perfect word, especially in sentiments expressed in Christmas cards.
The writer obviously intended the word manager. But this is a mistake that did not have to happen. It did not even need to be caught through proofreading. It could have been eliminated from the start.
How? Easily. Unless you write about mangers in your business, use your Microsoft AutoCorrect feature to automatically change manger to manager anytime you type it. It takes just a few seconds, like this:
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Click Tools.
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Click AutoCorrect Options.
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In the Replace box, type manger.
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In the With box, type manager.
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Click Add.
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Click OK.
I have written several times about how I now have Microsoft automatically change pubic to public. The result? I no longer offer any pubic seminars.
So no more excuses about silly typographical errors! Get rid of that doe snot (does not)! Away with those mangers!
The result? Your readers will focus on your message–not your mangers.
Lynn