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Word's Spell Checker Joins the French Foreign Legion
When Word's spelling checker marks an alleged misspelling for correction,
and I tell it to 'ignore' the alleged error, Word will ignore the alleged error for the current session. However, the next time I open the document, I'll often see the very same alleged misspellings flagged all over again. It's as if Word 'forgot' what I previously told it to ignore. I've noticed this in Word 2002, 2003 and now in Word 2007, which makes me think this is expected behavior, for some reason. To me, this doesn't make sense, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Shouldn't Word remember on a per-document basis which misspellings to ignore? (Perhaps it should store this information in the document metadata.) For example: A document I'm working on now explaining the differences between the serial and parallel interfaces includes the acronym IDE, which is flagged as a spelling error. If I add IDE to my custom dictionary, and later leave off the 's' in the word 'side' Word will not catch that mistake. So instead, I ask Word to 'ignore all' instances of IDE in this document. But the next time I open my document, there is IDE flagged as a spelling error again. Daddy |
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Word's Spell Checker Joins the French Foreign Legion
It has been bugged but unfortunately not in time for Word 2010. Hopefully it
will be fixed at the first servicepack for W2010. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Daddy" wrote in message ... When Word's spelling checker marks an alleged misspelling for correction, and I tell it to 'ignore' the alleged error, Word will ignore the alleged error for the current session. However, the next time I open the document, I'll often see the very same alleged misspellings flagged all over again. It's as if Word 'forgot' what I previously told it to ignore. I've noticed this in Word 2002, 2003 and now in Word 2007, which makes me think this is expected behavior, for some reason. To me, this doesn't make sense, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Shouldn't Word remember on a per-document basis which misspellings to ignore? (Perhaps it should store this information in the document metadata.) For example: A document I'm working on now explaining the differences between the serial and parallel interfaces includes the acronym IDE, which is flagged as a spelling error. If I add IDE to my custom dictionary, and later leave off the 's' in the word 'side' Word will not catch that mistake. So instead, I ask Word to 'ignore all' instances of IDE in this document. But the next time I open my document, there is IDE flagged as a spelling error again. Daddy |
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Word's Spell Checker Joins the French Foreign Legion
That's fine...I can wait. At least I know I wasn't doing something wrong!
Thanks for your help. Daddy "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It has been bugged but unfortunately not in time for Word 2010. Hopefully it will be fixed at the first servicepack for W2010. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Daddy" wrote in message ... When Word's spelling checker marks an alleged misspelling for correction, and I tell it to 'ignore' the alleged error, Word will ignore the alleged error for the current session. However, the next time I open the document, I'll often see the very same alleged misspellings flagged all over again. It's as if Word 'forgot' what I previously told it to ignore. I've noticed this in Word 2002, 2003 and now in Word 2007, which makes me think this is expected behavior, for some reason. To me, this doesn't make sense, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Shouldn't Word remember on a per-document basis which misspellings to ignore? (Perhaps it should store this information in the document metadata.) For example: A document I'm working on now explaining the differences between the serial and parallel interfaces includes the acronym IDE, which is flagged as a spelling error. If I add IDE to my custom dictionary, and later leave off the 's' in the word 'side' Word will not catch that mistake. So instead, I ask Word to 'ignore all' instances of IDE in this document. But the next time I open my document, there is IDE flagged as a spelling error again. Daddy |
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Word's Spell Checker Joins the French Foreign Legion
It's such a longstanding bug that one has to regard it as being "by design."
I remember first noticing this many versions back when I was typing a relatively long document with a lot of bizarre invented proper names. At that time, I was unaware of the trick of defining a "no proofing" character style, so I just kept clicking Ignore, but every time I opened the document again, all the squiggles were back. It is definitely annoying. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Daddy" wrote in message ... That's fine...I can wait. At least I know I wasn't doing something wrong! Thanks for your help. Daddy "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It has been bugged but unfortunately not in time for Word 2010. Hopefully it will be fixed at the first servicepack for W2010. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Daddy" wrote in message ... When Word's spelling checker marks an alleged misspelling for correction, and I tell it to 'ignore' the alleged error, Word will ignore the alleged error for the current session. However, the next time I open the document, I'll often see the very same alleged misspellings flagged all over again. It's as if Word 'forgot' what I previously told it to ignore. I've noticed this in Word 2002, 2003 and now in Word 2007, which makes me think this is expected behavior, for some reason. To me, this doesn't make sense, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Shouldn't Word remember on a per-document basis which misspellings to ignore? (Perhaps it should store this information in the document metadata.) For example: A document I'm working on now explaining the differences between the serial and parallel interfaces includes the acronym IDE, which is flagged as a spelling error. If I add IDE to my custom dictionary, and later leave off the 's' in the word 'side' Word will not catch that mistake. So instead, I ask Word to 'ignore all' instances of IDE in this document. But the next time I open my document, there is IDE flagged as a spelling error again. Daddy |
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Word's Spell Checker Joins the French Foreign Legion
Aha!
Daddy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... It's such a longstanding bug that one has to regard it as being "by design." I remember first noticing this many versions back when I was typing a relatively long document with a lot of bizarre invented proper names. At that time, I was unaware of the trick of defining a "no proofing" character style, so I just kept clicking Ignore, but every time I opened the document again, all the squiggles were back. It is definitely annoying. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Daddy" wrote in message ... That's fine...I can wait. At least I know I wasn't doing something wrong! Thanks for your help. Daddy "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It has been bugged but unfortunately not in time for Word 2010. Hopefully it will be fixed at the first servicepack for W2010. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Daddy" wrote in message ... When Word's spelling checker marks an alleged misspelling for correction, and I tell it to 'ignore' the alleged error, Word will ignore the alleged error for the current session. However, the next time I open the document, I'll often see the very same alleged misspellings flagged all over again. It's as if Word 'forgot' what I previously told it to ignore. I've noticed this in Word 2002, 2003 and now in Word 2007, which makes me think this is expected behavior, for some reason. To me, this doesn't make sense, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Shouldn't Word remember on a per-document basis which misspellings to ignore? (Perhaps it should store this information in the document metadata.) For example: A document I'm working on now explaining the differences between the serial and parallel interfaces includes the acronym IDE, which is flagged as a spelling error. If I add IDE to my custom dictionary, and later leave off the 's' in the word 'side' Word will not catch that mistake. So instead, I ask Word to 'ignore all' instances of IDE in this document. But the next time I open my document, there is IDE flagged as a spelling error again. Daddy |
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