Sorry… that wasn't quite what I wanted to write.

One of the drawbacks with the spell-checker in Office 2003 was that it could only check words on an individual basis. So while the title of this post makes no sense whatsoever, each word is correctly spelt. As such, if you were to rely solely on the spell-checker to proof-read a document, you could submit it with a lot of "correctly" spelt  typos.

If this sounds familiar, then you are going to welcome the arrival of the wavy blue line. In the same way that the red line identifies spelling mistakes and the green line grammatical errors (although I've never been a huge fan of some of the "rules" the grammar checker wants to enforce), the blue line looks for correctly spelt words, that don't fit the context of your sentence.

So my title in Word looks something like this:

Easy to spot, easy to correct! This should definitely save me some red-faced moments in the future!

Note: the more eagle-eyed will have spotted that "too" and "right" are not underlined in the example above. Clearly, the "word choice" checker has some limits. In this particular example the incorrect usage of "waned" means that the rest of the sentence can't be accurately checked.

When you correct "waned", the checker immediately points out that "too" is incorrectly used.

Correcting "too" leaves us with:

But "right" will never get picked up, because it could, albeit unusually, be correct:

That [particularly sentence] wasn't quite what I wanted to write.
That [particular injustice] wasn't quite what I wanted to right.