This post is more of a rant.
I can't count the number of times someone has come up to me saying their computer is doing something weird, and a reboot has brought it back to working normally. PC, MAC, Linux, you name it I've seen reboots or reloads take care of it.
Case in point. Had a user come up to me saying that Word was giving them a date in it's auto-complete feature that was off from time to time. Sometimes as much as a couple of days. I looked at the computer (a MAC btw) and sure enough Word was putting in a date from several days ago (specifically about 4). So, I thought lets see what happens with a reboot, but before that, lets just try completely exiting out of Word and re-opening it. Sure enough, that brought the date current. So, my guess is that when Word starts it pulls some of those variables from the system and caches them for use while it is open. And exiting out of just the document doesn't actually exit out of Word on a MAC. So, this user needs to get in the practice (if they want to continue using this feature and it remain accurate) of at least exiting out of Word at the end of every day to re-open fresh the next day.
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