The name "Robert A. Smith" appears unexpectedly in Word document

[BruceG]

OK, I know this is a weird one. I have clients using an app I wrote in Visual Basic which makes text substitutions in legal documents (kind of a glorified mail-merge app). They claim that occasionally, in this one particular document, the name "Robert A. Smith" appears unexpectedly, even though this name is not present in the data being merged in. I see no rhyme or reason to this, and I have not duplicated this phenomenon while testing. I don't want to go on a wild goose chase, so I just thought I'd check in here to see if anyone else has experienced this.

 

[ETID]

virus?

 

[Edric]

try turning off the auto-complete command..

 

[BruceG]

Thanks for your responses.

Edric: I am not sure that the auto-complete command would come into play when manipulating a document thru code; I doubt that it would, but I'll check it out.

ETID: A virus may be a likely culprit; that did cross my mind. Do you have any idea which virus would exhibit such behavior? These folks did have networking and virus issues; recently they got those issues taken care of by their network people, and I don't believe this problem has resurfaced since then. I'll keep my eye out for it...

 

[Gareth1978]

An absolutely silly idea but.........there isn't something in autocorrect that says when something is typed correct to "Robert A Smith". It's amazing what users can do if left to their own devices.

 

[Dreamboat]

Of course, it's an auto-correct or auto-text on someone's PC.

And, of course it will come into play if the right sequence of letters is entered into a document. VBA or no.

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