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Spell Check - treat underscore as word separator
How can I define an underscore (or any other character for that matter) to be
a word separator? I have sentences such as "... use the vendor_name in the Initial_Load file ..." and both underscored compound words fail the standard spell check, but would succeed if treated separately. This is for Office 2007 - primarily for Word 2007, but this affects Outlook 2007 if Word is used as the email spell-checker. |
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Spell Check - treat underscore as word separator
Hello Andy
Andy wrote: How can I define an underscore (or any other character for that matter) to be a word separator? I have sentences such as "... use the vendor_name in the Initial_Load file ..." and both underscored compound words fail the standard spell check, but would succeed if treated separately. This is for Office 2007 - primarily for Word 2007, but this affects Outlook 2007 if Word is used as the email spell-checker. I don't think this is possible. What exactly are these underscores (sound like variable names)? Possibly, you could add them individually to your custom dictionary? 0.2ΒΆ Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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Spell Check - treat underscore as word separator
I don't think this is possible.
What exactly are these underscores (sound like variable names)? Possibly, you could add them individually to your custom dictionary? The underscores separate words in variable names, such as data elements and file names. The words themselves tend to be proper words, as opposed to abbreviations (e.g. vendor_address_1 as opposed to vendor_addr1). Adding them all to a custom dictionary would not be practical (we're talking about thousands of possibilities, since customer_address_1, client_address_1 and attorney_address_1 are just some of the possibilities for Address 1 alone). I also use a text-editor for writing programming code, which handles many different programming languages, and one of its features is the ability to define 'white space' - i.e. the characters that should be treated as spaces for word-checking purposes. In MS Word, spaces, hyphens, commas, periods etc are already treated as white space. Thanks anyway. Andy |
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Spell Check - treat underscore as word separator
Hello Andy
Andy wrote: What exactly are these underscores (sound like variable names)? Possibly, you could add them individually to your custom dictionary? The underscores separate words in variable names, such as data elements and file names. The words themselves tend to be proper words, as opposed to abbreviations (e.g. vendor_address_1 as opposed to vendor_addr1). Adding them all to a custom dictionary would not be practical (we're talking about thousands of possibilities, since customer_address_1, client_address_1 and attorney_address_1 are just some of the possibilities for Address 1 alone). you could automate the adding part, but I agree it's probably not elegant anyway. If you don't want to see spelling errors there, I only see two options: - adding the variable names to the custom dictionary, or - setting the language property of these words to "no proofing" (you could use a character style for this). Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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