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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
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? |
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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
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? |
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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
"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. |
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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!) |
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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
The spell checker should treat the dashes as white space. If you make a
copy of your document and replace all the dashes with spaces, the spell check will find the same spelling errors. You need to add the text fragments (SpaceComm, StartTime, CommStartTime) to your dictionary. || "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. |
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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
Mecalith is right. It is not because SpaceCommStartTime is in the speller
lexicon (or has been added to the custom dictionary) that the speller should verify SpaceComm and StartTime on either side of the hyphen. If the speller was doing that, it would also verify a string like infor-mation, which everyone would consider incorrect (and which everyone will expect the speller to flag). Best wishes, Thierry Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] Microsoft Natural Language Group "Mecalith" wrote: The spell checker should treat the dashes as white space. If you make a copy of your document and replace all the dashes with spaces, the spell check will find the same spelling errors. You need to add the text fragments (SpaceComm, StartTime, CommStartTime) to your dictionary. || "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. |
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How can I make spell check ignore optional hyphens?
Hi,
I'm having a similar problem while writing some java software documentation. I was wondering whether there is an option to make ms-office's spell checker ignore mixed case words like the Eclipse spell checker does? An even better solution would be that the speller would know to treat mixed-case words as separate words (or sub-words if you like), and search each sub-word in the lexicon instead of searching for the joint word. e.g SpaceCommStartTime would be treated as "Space Comm Start Time" during spelling (but the document remains unchanged). 1. Is there a way to do it using built-in ms-office features? 2. Is there a way to write an office add-in that programmatically affects the speller's behavior? Avner "Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]" wrote: Mecalith is right. It is not because SpaceCommStartTime is in the speller lexicon (or has been added to the custom dictionary) that the speller should verify SpaceComm and StartTime on either side of the hyphen. If the speller was doing that, it would also verify a string like infor-mation, which everyone would consider incorrect (and which everyone will expect the speller to flag). Best wishes, Thierry Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] Microsoft Natural Language Group "Mecalith" wrote: The spell checker should treat the dashes as white space. If you make a copy of your document and replace all the dashes with spaces, the spell check will find the same spelling errors. You need to add the text fragments (SpaceComm, StartTime, CommStartTime) to your dictionary. || "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. |
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