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Office 2003 and 2007 Word ignores certain spelling errors
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? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 Word ignores certain spelling errors
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). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 Word ignores certain spelling errors
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). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 Word ignores certain spelling errors
For numbers, in Word 2007, check Word Options - Proofing, and remove the
check next to "Ignore words that contain numbers". (I believe there's a corresponding setting in Word 2003, but I don't recall where offhand). For the others you mentioned, if I insert one in a word (asterisk, parentheses, apostrophe), Word treats the before/after components as separate words, and I get spelling error underlining for the components unless they actually are words. For example, if I type "exam*ple", the exam portion is not flagged, but the ple portion is. If I type "exa(mple", both components are flagged. In any case, the odds are good that my attention is going to be called to the error. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Tim Mackey" Tim wrote in message ... 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? |
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Office 2003 and 2007 Word ignores certain spelling errors
For numbers, in Word 2007, check Word Options - Proofing, and remove the
check next to "Ignore words that contain numbers". (I believe there's a corresponding setting in Word 2003, but I don't recall where offhand). For the others you mentioned, if I insert one in a word (asterisk, parentheses, apostrophe), Word treats the before/after components as separate words, and I get spelling error underlining for the components unless they actually are words. For example, if I type "exam*ple", the exam portion is not flagged, but the ple portion is. If I type "exa(mple", both components are flagged. In any case, the odds are good that my attention is going to be called to the error. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Tim Mackey" Tim wrote in message ... 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? |
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