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Re: Odd typing in MSWord

From: Deborah McMahon (d.mcmahontelesciences.com)
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 12:49:34 CST

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Federated Information Security wrote:

> I ran across something rather odd today I'm hoping someone might have
> thoughts on. One of my users had their XP SP1 laptop on the corporate
> network and was editing a Word document with office 2002. They pasted
> something in a table, and it looked like someone started typing in their
> document. It was slow, typical typing speed, and lasted for about 10
> minutes (I actually got a chance to see it). The text was nonsense
> words, like the kind you often see in spam nowadays.

    any chance the user has an installed program that does speech to
    text or speech recognition? if so, they may have triggered it
    somehow and the computer was trying to type what it believed it
    was hearing .....

deborah
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Deborah McMahon <mailto:d.mcmahontelesciences.com>
Information Services
Telesciences, Inc. <http://www.telesciences.com>
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