I’ve had to exercise keeping my cool lately.  One of my clients doesn’t speak English and I’m forced to communicate with them in Spanish.  This isn’t too much of a problem because I can speak Spanish well enough to deal with them.  They just have been making weird little mistakes here and there that just keep adding up and wearing me down.  It gets to the point where you just have to let it go, laugh at it, and realize that you’ll at least have a funny story to share with people in the future.

The latest small little issue that I’ve had to deal with actually resulted in me learning a new feature of Word that I wasn’t familiar with.  My client sent me a Word document that contained all the text that they wanted on their site.  I opened it up and discover that they’ve typed it all in CAPS.  You can imagine the words that came out of my mouth when I saw that.  I started to think of a solution.  I can whip together a small php script to fix the text, but I decided to put a little faith into Microsoft (usually not a good idea).  A performed a simple Google search and found the solution.  If you select the block of text thats all in CAPS you can then hit SHIFT + F3 and it will make it all lowercase.  If you hit SHIFT + F3 again it will correct the sentence structure, making the first letter of each sentence a capital letter.  That saved me some time.  It makes me wonder how many other programs have great features I don’t know about because I’ve never had the right situation come up.

Side note:
Even though I was able to fix the text, they typed it in a mix of Spanish and English, so now I have to go through and translate and fix various parts of it because they want the site to be in English.  Sometimes you just have to LOL.