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Easy way to check two word spelling?
I have a problem that others must have solved already, I hope. I am writing a
technical book and need some way to insure that two-word combinations are correctly spelled as two words, one word or hyphenated. I have a list of problem combinations and wonder if that could be used some way. it is complicated by fact that two words could be hyphenated one time but not another. For example, could have "at high pressure" or "high-pressure test". Is there some way to take advantage of the spellchecker or have a VBA macro that searches for list of word combinations and asks if spelling should be checked? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! |
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Easy way to check two word spelling?
You could do a find-replace for the phrase, first spelled with the
hyphen set to replace without it, looking at each example and clicking "Replace" or "Find Next"; and then do it again for the phrase without the hyphen set to replace with the hyphen. On Jan 6, 10:41*pm, Bonsai Bill wrote: I have a problem that others must have solved already, I hope. I am writing a technical book and need some way to insure that two-word combinations are correctly spelled as two words, one word or hyphenated. I have a list of problem combinations and wonder if that could be used some way. it is complicated by fact that two words could be hyphenated one time but not another. For example, *could have "at high pressure" or "high-pressure test". Is there some way to take advantage of the spellchecker or have a VBA macro that searches for list of word combinations and asks if spelling should be checked? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! |
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Easy way to check two word spelling?
Traditional copy editors do this manually, using a sheet of paper divided
into four panels (roughly distributing the alphabet) and noting any specific word treatment to use consistently. You could do the same thing with a 2 x 2 table in a document, but of course Word's ability to sort would make it easy to keep your notes alphabetized without need for this distribution. I guess what I'm getting at is that, no, there's not going to be any magic automatic way to do this; it's going to come down to a "manual" effort, but if you keep a record of the decisions you've made about certain treatment, then you'll have something to refer to. You'll note "high pressure (n.)" and "high-pressure (adj.)" as separate listings. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Bonsai Bill" wrote in message news I have a problem that others must have solved already, I hope. I am writing a technical book and need some way to insure that two-word combinations are correctly spelled as two words, one word or hyphenated. I have a list of problem combinations and wonder if that could be used some way. it is complicated by fact that two words could be hyphenated one time but not another. For example, could have "at high pressure" or "high-pressure test". Is there some way to take advantage of the spellchecker or have a VBA macro that searches for list of word combinations and asks if spelling should be checked? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! |
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Easy way to check two word spelling?
Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately they were not the responses I was
looking for. However, they were not unexpected either. Your replies did give me an idea though. I am going to not hyphenate any words in the initial draft. i will then write a macro that does a search and replace on all of the word pairs and do it with Track Changes on. I then manually will check all proposed changes and either accept or reject the replace. It will be ugly but at least the possible changes will be flagged. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Traditional copy editors do this manually, using a sheet of paper divided into four panels (roughly distributing the alphabet) and noting any specific word treatment to use consistently. You could do the same thing with a 2 x 2 table in a document, but of course Word's ability to sort would make it easy to keep your notes alphabetized without need for this distribution. I guess what I'm getting at is that, no, there's not going to be any magic automatic way to do this; it's going to come down to a "manual" effort, but if you keep a record of the decisions you've made about certain treatment, then you'll have something to refer to. You'll note "high pressure (n.)" and "high-pressure (adj.)" as separate listings. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Bonsai Bill" wrote in message news I have a problem that others must have solved already, I hope. I am writing a technical book and need some way to insure that two-word combinations are correctly spelled as two words, one word or hyphenated. I have a list of problem combinations and wonder if that could be used some way. it is complicated by fact that two words could be hyphenated one time but not another. For example, could have "at high pressure" or "high-pressure test". Is there some way to take advantage of the spellchecker or have a VBA macro that searches for list of word combinations and asks if spelling should be checked? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! |
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Easy way to check two word spelling?
One of the style settings in the grammar checker is for hyphenated and
compound words. It will flag simple ones like the one you noted. I don't think it is a substitute for a good conventions list and a series of running find and replace. You might search the web for editing software. PamC Bonsai Bill wrote: Thanks for your responses. Unfortunately they were not the responses I was looking for. However, they were not unexpected either. Your replies did give me an idea though. I am going to not hyphenate any words in the initial draft. i will then write a macro that does a search and replace on all of the word pairs and do it with Track Changes on. I then manually will check all proposed changes and either accept or reject the replace. It will be ugly but at least the possible changes will be flagged. Traditional copy editors do this manually, using a sheet of paper divided into four panels (roughly distributing the alphabet) and noting any specific [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ement/200901/1 |
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