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Default How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?

On Sep 26, 1:58*pm, John P wrote:
"grammatim" wrote:
You could put both varieties into your custom dictionary; or you could
put all the optional hyphens into the word each time it occurs (use
AutoCorrect/AutoFormat to make it easer).


On Sep 26, 1:06 pm, John P John
wrote:
I am writing a technical document with many long, concatenated camelCase
words. I need to use optional hyphens (CTRL-), and the hyphenation occurs
with different breaks in different instances (e.g., SpaceComm-StartTime and
Space-CommStartTime). When I run spell chek, each of these gets flagged as a
different word, Is there any way to make spell check ignore optional hyphens
so that when I okay "SpaceCommStartTime" it will know that
"SpaceComm-StartTime" and "Space-CommStartTime" are okay too?


Thanks. That might help for a limited number of such word, but my document has hundreds of them, many with 5+ occurrences (each a different variation). I was hoping that Word would have an option to just ignore the hyphens in spell check.-


(Sorry, I don't use spellcheck, so I just looked in my open document
for the controls, and they've moved them somewhere. The document is
set to "do not check spelling or grammar" -- which apparently now
means you can't even _manually_ check a word or passage!)