{"id":1921,"date":"2011-07-22T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/07\/22\/typing-oot-fast\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:37:07","slug":"typing-oot-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/07\/22\/typing-oot-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"typing oot fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you ever find that your typing gets a little garbled, your fingers get ahead of your mind and the result is a mess?<\/p>\n

One typo I do all the time is \u201cot\u201d when I mean \u201cto\u201d. I think this happens because I am frequently typing NT and OT for the Testaments. This used to drive me crazy. I hate lifting my hand from the keyboard to fix this with spell-check so I created a Word macro to fix this on the fly.<\/p>\n

Here it is:<\/p>\n

\n

Sub FixOT()
‘
‘ FixOT Macro
‘ Macro recorded 1\/1\/99 by Donald C S Johnson
‘
    Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
    Selection.Cut
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.Paste
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have this Macro attached to the keyboard shortcut \u201cCtrl-Shift-O\u201d. It only works when you are one space past the typo\u2026 \u201cot \u201c (just before the second quote in the example.<\/p>\n

And\u2026 I find that my fingers sometimes zip along and type \u201csi\u201d for \u201cis\u201d and \u201ceb\u201d for \u201cbe\u201d and \u201cyb\u201d for \u201cby\u201d and any number of other dumb typing errors. My little macro gets used a lot.<\/p>\n

If only it could fix all my typos\u2026 I still have plenty in the big words too!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something like the way I talk. One of my friends used to say, \u201cMy tongue gets tangled around my eye-teeth and I can\u2019t see what I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this of any interest to anyone, but it\u2019s Friday and I have been making these typos a lot this week!<\/p>\n

\"don_sig2\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you ever find that your typing gets a little garbled, your fingers get ahead of your mind and the result is a mess? One typo I do all the time is \u201cot\u201d when I mean \u201cto\u201d. I think this happens because I am frequently typing NT and OT for the Testaments. This used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33,72],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-uZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}