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Spell checking inconsistency
I'm working on a document in German using the American version of Word 2002.
Unsurprisingly, Word puts its red squiggly line under pretty much every word in the first paragraph. What is surprising is that it doesn't flag any other word in the document as misspelled. It's as if it gives up after the first paragraph. I'd like to have it spell-check the German, but my understanding is that that's an extra cost option, and I don't want it badly enough to pay for it. That being the case, I'd like to turn off spell checking for German documents. Once I get the kinks worked out of this document, I plan to save it as a template for future German documents, but one of the kinks is that Word seems intent on spell-checking the first paragraph only. Can somebody explain to me why it's treating the first paragraph differently from all the rest? Several subsequent paragraphs use the same style (Body Text), so I'm guessing it's not a style thing... Thanks, Scott |
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Spell checking inconsistency
If you have "Detect language automatically" checked in Tools | Language |
Set Language, I'm guessing that after the first paragraph it does indeed "give up" and applies "Do not check spelling or grammar" (no proofing) to the rest of the text. You can arrange this on purpose by adding that property to the styles you use for your German documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... I'm working on a document in German using the American version of Word 2002. Unsurprisingly, Word puts its red squiggly line under pretty much every word in the first paragraph. What is surprising is that it doesn't flag any other word in the document as misspelled. It's as if it gives up after the first paragraph. I'd like to have it spell-check the German, but my understanding is that that's an extra cost option, and I don't want it badly enough to pay for it. That being the case, I'd like to turn off spell checking for German documents. Once I get the kinks worked out of this document, I plan to save it as a template for future German documents, but one of the kinks is that Word seems intent on spell-checking the first paragraph only. Can somebody explain to me why it's treating the first paragraph differently from all the rest? Several subsequent paragraphs use the same style (Body Text), so I'm guessing it's not a style thing... Thanks, Scott |
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