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MS Office 97--Why Spelling Correction the Same Spelling
I've noticed that sometimes when I use the Word spell checker that it wants to
replace the word with the same word. What causes that? -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet The greatest evil is fear." -- Epicurean Philosophy Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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It may be that the word you think you have is not what you really have. For
example, if you import text from WordPerfect, a word like "don't" may look perfectly correct, but because the apostrophe is actually a character from the WP Typographic Symbols font instead of an apostrophe from the default paragraph font, Word doesn't recognize the word. Or it could be that part of the word is formatted as a different language or as "Do not check spelling" (though a limited test doesn't confirm that this could be a problem). -- 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. "W. Watson" wrote in message nk.net... I've noticed that sometimes when I use the Word spell checker that it wants to replace the word with the same word. What causes that? -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet The greatest evil is fear." -- Epicurean Philosophy Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
It may be that the word you think you have is not what you really have. For example, if you import text from WordPerfect, a word like "don't" may look perfectly correct, but because the apostrophe is actually a character from the WP Typographic Symbols font instead of an apostrophe from the default paragraph font, Word doesn't recognize the word. Or it could be that part of the word is formatted as a different language or as "Do not check spelling" (though a limited test doesn't confirm that this could be a problem). Possibly formatting. The next time it happens, I'll post the word and context. It seems to happen a fair amount, so it shouldn't be long. -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet The greatest evil is fear." -- Epicurean Philosophy Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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