Liz, don't assume Jezebel is just being flippant -- that advice is
correct.
If you have a clean, machine-printed document, you can scan it and run
the resulting picture through optical character recognition software.
That software relies on the letters having uniform shapes that it can
compare to an internal description.
Very few people can hand-print letters with enough consistency to let
OCR software recognize the characters reliably. Cursive handwriting is
nearly impossible for the software. It would take you longer to
correct the mistakes in a scan than to type the document yourself.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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