This article was amended on 9 September 2014 to correct a word in a quote from Ian Katz.
So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office.
For the first hour and ten minutes of his speech, Putin seemed bored by the entire exercise: he droned on, looking down at the prepared text, frequently doubling back to correct a word he'd misread.
Apple doesn't provide many common features — Taphive had to build its own autocorrect, word suggestions, and behavior for things like having the shift key automatically enabled when you correct a word that was already capitalized.
[Update/Correction: With a transcript in hand, I have corrected a few minor wording errors.
The idea to fix your typing after the fact is something native keyboards do today but only to correct a misspelled word in most cases.
McKeon corrected a questioner when the word retirement was used, saying he was "in between jobs" in May, home in Elon, N.C., helping his grandson, Zachary Booker, a player at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
If it's in quotes, they're his words, though I may need to correct a few words here or there.
That said, when you correct an autocorrected word, your phone learns the spelling you prefer.
This article was amended on 19 January 2015 to correct a misuse of the word dyslexic.
Any inappropriate phone calls to share from the subcontinent?(The photo of a texting bhatji comes from Babbage's extensive Indian wedding collection).This post has been amended to correct a misspelling of the word "bhatji".
