* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

Multimate International developed the core word processing software and utilities ( file conversion, printer drivers ), but purchased and adapted sub-programs for spelling and grammar checking, list management, outlining and print-time incorporation of graphics in word processing documents ( MultiMate GraphLink ).

* " Wrapper " programmes for executables, like a batch file that moves or manipulates files and does other things with the operating system before or after running an application like a word processor, spreadsheet, data base, assembler, compiler, etc.

The output of similar file comparison utilities are also called a " diff "; like the use of the word " grep " for describing the act of searching, the word diff is used in jargon as a verb for calculating any difference.

The word is an example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the supposed sound of the user hitting the bottom of the kill file ( imagining perhaps the kill file as a bucket ).

For example, a word processing file might store its text in the data fork, while storing any embedded images in the same file's resource fork.

Similar patterns of key combinations, later borrowed by others, remain widely available in most GUI text editors, word processors, and file system browsers.

" The word " Export " indicated that only the recordings made for export to Central and South America were included in the file.

Browsers often allow a user to change their rendering engine's encoding setting on the fly, while word processors allow the user to select the appropriate encoding when opening a file.

They avoid some of the problems encountered with other file formats, such as endianness, padding bytes, or differences in the number of bytes in a machine word.

Another Easter egg shows a Mr Pacman eating candy when < tt > pacman-Syu </ tt > is entered, or when the user installs any program ( the word " ILoveCandy " must be present in the configuration file < tt >/ etc / pacman. conf </ tt >).

However, the new word processor saves all of the text at the beginning of the file, puts the END mark, and then stores the picture data next, and puts a END mark after the picture data.

When Version 3 is released that allows videos in the word processor file, it would save in this format: text data END, picture data END, and video data END.

Because the DOC file format was a closed specification for many years, inconsistent handling of the format persists and may cause some loss of formatting information when handling the same file with multiple word processing programs.

C & E Software was in the process of developing an integrated file management and word processing program.

The new Symantec combined the file management and word processing functionality that C & E had planned, and added an advanced Natural Language query system ( designed by Gary Hendrix and engineered by Dan Gordon ) that set new standards for ease of database query and report generation.

Her profile in LapTrap's " ClueFinders Club " file states that she won the National Spelling Bee when she was nine, holds the local record for checking out the most library books a year and that her first word was " encyclopedia.

Napster at the time was a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that was launched in 1999 ; by 2000, " Napster " was practically a household word, thanks to several high-profile lawsuits filed against it that year.

* DOC ( computing ), a word processing file format, typically used by Microsoft Word.

The default binary file format used by Microsoft Word (. doc ) has become widespread de facto standard for office documents, but it is a proprietary format and is not always fully supported by other word processors.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.