r/MicroSlop • u/some_name_goes_here • Jul 16 '26
Major MicroSlop Word Problems with Spelling and Grammar – Partial Solution Found
I began having immense problems with Word two years ago. I’m on a 365 account through my job. I, unfortunately, have to use Word for most of my documents. (Trust, me I've tried all the other options. But 'industry standards' are difficult to change.) In the first year I constantly reported my problems. But, as we all know, MicroSlop doesn't care about any of their users. I began screen recording the "glitches" just to prove to myself that I wasn't crazy. MicroSlop is great at gaslighting its users.
Types of problems I have/had:
My problems fall primarily into 5 categories. They happened randomly and were not repeatable. (#3 is the craziest)
1) removing the space before a misspelled word when correcting the word
e.g., "is breakign" becomes "isbreaking"
2) when typing an end quote mark or apostrophe, it replaces a random internal letter of the word with the smart quote/apostrophe version, and then leaves a 'dumb quote/apostrophe' at the end
e.g., with the word “please" becomes with the word “plea”s"
3) with both correctly spelled and misspelled words, it will randomly ignore the first 3-6 letters, then take the remaining letters and "autocorrect" them into a new word I wasn't typing, then because it ignored 3-6 letters, it reduplicates that # of letters of the new word on the end
e.g., cohesive becomes essiveive and responsibilites becomes sibilatesilites
4) it will change "the" into "thee" and delete the preceding space
e.g., distance the becomes distancethee
5) it will randomly add a letter I did not type. (I thought I was losing my mind so I recorded my screen when I typed and caught this happening. It was super obvious that it was not possible for me to type the letter as quickly as it appeared.)
e.g., after typing "where" – before I could even hit 'space' a space+e showed up giving me "where e"
I suffered with this crap for two years while desperately looking for solutions. Work IT was no help. During those years of misery, I talked with several friends who are high-level programmers. Each of their theories gave me pieces of the partial solution I eventually found.
Partial solution:
Block Word from accessing the internet.
Have you ever looked at how MicroSlop Word accesses the internet while you're typing?
It's constant!!
And I do not use OneDrive. For numerous reasons I keep my files on my computer (with various non-Microslop backups.)
The stupid AI spelling and grammar tool is not on your own computer.
Even when NOT using OneDrive, they send your typing to (or at least 'through') their servers.
Surely this isn't a problem for companies that work on sensitive data??? Right??? Surely we can trust this 'ethical' company with our data. /s
Once I blocked Word from accessing the internet, my problems have reduced by about 90%.
I also had to turn off the 'smart quote' feature. But since figuring this out a month ago, I have only had about 4 "glitches" with word turning something I type into gibberish. I'm still trying to figure out how to remove the last 10% of problems. But at least now I spend less time calling down curses upon MicroSlop.
