For the past 15 years, I've used one particular word to hold my place in the documents I'm editing or writing. I remember picking this word and thinking, "It'll be safe because I'll never actually find it in a document or use it myself." So for the last forever, every time I start working on a project, I open the file, do a Find, type in my code word, and zoom right back to where I left off.
The word is "byzantine." I always thought it was kind of appropriate.
Well, today it happened. I opened up my current editing project, searched for byzantine and actually found that the author had used it in his manuscript. I'm still a little in shock. Years and years have gone by ... hundreds of books have passed over my desk in one form of another ... and this is the first one to use the word byzantine.
What's going to happen next? Palin for president? A call from Oprah? I feel nervous, rattled.
8 comments:
Never say never.
Byzantine is too hard to type! I use "xxx."
Travis,
I'll never say never again.
Hey, wait a second ...
Stephen,
If I used that, I'd be afraid of never finding my spot again.
That is so cool.
Byzantine? I must say that word five dozen times a day. "Oh, that reminds me of my byzantine era," or, "Ovaltine? I thought you said Byzantine," and let's not forget "Get the byzantine outta here!" (Damn those Turks!)
;-)
So that's why I use bookmarks in Word. Handy little tool once I figured it out.
P.S. Here's to Oprah calling and not Palin for President.
Melanie,
One might almost say it's byzantine.
Kath,
Ha ha! Awesome!
You had me at Ovaltine.
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