[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Have you had any luck looking for "Do not check spelling or grammar"
formatting (as Suzanne mentions in her reply)?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




"IslandKatz" wrote in message
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Hello again,

I didn't receive any error messages, and the words that are being missed
are not formatted any differently than the rest of the words in the
text. They weren't pasted from any other document or from the Web -
just normal words that were typed along with all the rest as I was
writing the document.

For example, spell check did not catch the word "botte" instead of
"bottle", or the word "follwing" instead of "following". Neither of
those misspelled words are correct in English, and my Word setup is for
English only. And yet, those and other words were simply not found at
all by spell check. It also didn't find contextual issues, such as
"Place the completed form in your binder in." And "clues that you can
easily drawn upon."

This is why I'm still hoping for some other tool to use to check the
spelling. I can't really use an online checker because those tools are
only for checking, at most, a few pages. Not the 350 that I need to
check.

Thanks again!
IslandKatz

Stefan wrote:
I would have thought that contextual spellchecking had *improved* the
spellchecker. I certainly haven't seen any reports that it has grown
radically worse.

Do you see any error messages?

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Suzanne wrote: If words are being missed, the strong likelihood is that
those words are formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar." As
explained in the referenced article, such language settings can apply to
as little as a single character or space and are frequently introduced
by pasting from another document or the Web. Once introduced into a
document, the formatting can be propagated by typing when the insertion
point is in a position with that formatting.




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IslandKatz