There's an option (in Word 2003, Tools Options Spelling & Grammar;
in Word 2007, Office button Word Options Proofing) for "Ignore
words with numbers" that prevents recognition of something like
"Off9ce" from being recognized as an error. That option is checked by
default but you can uncheck it.
The other characters you mentioned are considered to be word-ending
punctuation, so if the sequences to the left and right of one of those
characters form correctly spelled words, the spell checker won't mark
anything. Otherwise, it should flag at least one part of the word as
misspelled. There is no option you can change as in the case of
digits. If you find that you make the same mistake repeatedly, you can
put it into the AutoCorrect list
(
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...toCorrect.htm).
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:24:01 -0700, Tim Mackey Tim
wrote:
I checked both versions (2003 and 2007) of Office Word to see if they
recognized specific spelling errors. Spell checker seems to ignore any word
that has certain characters embedded, like any number (0-9), asterisk,
parenthesis, right brace, backslash, or left-arrow (shift apostrophe). When
I'm banging along and I unintentionally hit a numeric key within a word,
spell checker doesn't recognize the error. Why? Is there a fix for this?