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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
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Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
At File tab | Options | Proofing, click the Settings button (next to the
"Writing style" drop down) and make sure that "Spaces required between sentences" is set to what you want. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Hello! Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy -- kathyturner |
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Thank you Stefan:
I made the change you suggested, BUT it does not solve the problem. Here is a screencast (using Jing) of 2 test sentences. As you can see ONLY TWO of the spacing errors IN the sentences were picked up: http://screencast.com/t/Nap0uiLs9FV EVEN more puzzling: Here is a screencast of the same 2 test sentences but with extra space added between them. Grammar checker picked up the space between sentences BUT ONLY ONE of the space errors within the sentences: http://screencast.com/t/TgVxkEa92 What is happening? Kathy Quote:
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
This is strange. For me it appears to work correctly.
Verify that the correct language is applied to text and that "Mark grammar errors as you type" is selected in the Proofing category (of File tab | Options). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Thank you Stefan: I made the change you suggested, BUT it does not solve the problem. Here is a screencast (using Jing) of 2 test sentences. As you can see ONLY TWO of the spacing errors IN the sentences were picked up: http://screencast.com/t/Nap0uiLs9FV EVEN more puzzling: Here is a screencast of the same 2 test sentences but with extra space added between them. Grammar checker picked up the space between sentences BUT ONLY ONE of the space errors within the sentences: http://screencast.com/t/TgVxkEa92 What is happening? Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;493192']At File tab | Options | Proofing, click the Settings button (next to the "Writing style" drop down) and make sure that "Spaces required between sentences" is set to what you want. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Hello! Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy -- kathyturner -- kathyturner |
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YES - both of those are done. STILL a problem. I find that it will pick up the FIRST lot of double spacing in any sentence but not any others!
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
Why not just do a Find-Replace, with two spaces in the Find Box, one
space in the Replace With box, click Replace All, and keep doing it until it reports "0 replacements"? On Sep 7, 9:05*pm, kathyturner wrote: YES - both of those are done. STILL a problem. I find that it will pick up the FIRST lot of double spacing in any sentence but not any others! Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;493199']This is strange. For me it appears to work correctly. Verify that the correct language is applied to text and that "Mark grammar errors as you type" is selected in the Proofing category (of File tab | Options). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" *wrote in message ... Thank you Stefan: I made the change you suggested, BUT it does not solve the problem. Here is a screencast (using Jing) of 2 test sentences. As you can see ONLY TWO of the spacing errors IN the sentences were picked up: http://screencast.com/t/Nap0uiLs9FV EVEN more puzzling: Here is a screencast of the same 2 test sentences but with extra space added between them. Grammar checker picked up the space between sentences BUT ONLY ONE of the space errors within the sentences:http://screencast.com/t/TgVxkEa92 What is happening? Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:- ;493192']At File tab | Options | Proofing, click the Settings button (next to the "Writing style" drop down) and make sure that "Spaces required between sentences" is set to what you want. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" *wrote in message ... Hello! Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
In my experience, the grammar checker often flags the first error in a
sentence but does not flag subsequent errors until the first is corrected. Not terribly helpful, but at least it does cut down on the amount of wavy underlining. "kathyturner" wrote in message ... YES - both of those are done. STILL a problem. I find that it will pick up the FIRST lot of double spacing in any sentence but not any others! Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;493199']This is strange. For me it appears to work correctly. Verify that the correct language is applied to text and that "Mark grammar errors as you type" is selected in the Proofing category (of File tab | Options). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Thank you Stefan: I made the change you suggested, BUT it does not solve the problem. Here is a screencast (using Jing) of 2 test sentences. As you can see ONLY TWO of the spacing errors IN the sentences were picked up: http://screencast.com/t/Nap0uiLs9FV EVEN more puzzling: Here is a screencast of the same 2 test sentences but with extra space added between them. Grammar checker picked up the space between sentences BUT ONLY ONE of the space errors within the sentences: http://screencast.com/t/TgVxkEa92 What is happening? Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:- ;493192']At File tab | Options | Proofing, click the Settings button (next to the "Writing style" drop down) and make sure that "Spaces required between sentences" is set to what you want. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Hello! Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy -- kathyturner- -- kathyturner -- kathyturner |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
Maybe not terribly helpful, but it certainly explains some of the symptoms
described in this thread... :-) -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... In my experience, the grammar checker often flags the first error in a sentence but does not flag subsequent errors until the first is corrected. Not terribly helpful, but at least it does cut down on the amount of wavy underlining. "kathyturner" wrote in message ... YES - both of those are done. STILL a problem. I find that it will pick up the FIRST lot of double spacing in any sentence but not any others! Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote: ;493199']This is strange. For me it appears to work correctly. Verify that the correct language is applied to text and that "Mark grammar errors as you type" is selected in the Proofing category (of File tab | Options). -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Thank you Stefan: I made the change you suggested, BUT it does not solve the problem. Here is a screencast (using Jing) of 2 test sentences. As you can see ONLY TWO of the spacing errors IN the sentences were picked up: http://screencast.com/t/Nap0uiLs9FV EVEN more puzzling: Here is a screencast of the same 2 test sentences but with extra space added between them. Grammar checker picked up the space between sentences BUT ONLY ONE of the space errors within the sentences: http://screencast.com/t/TgVxkEa92 What is happening? Kathy 'Stefan Blom[_3_ Wrote:- ;493192']At File tab | Options | Proofing, click the Settings button (next to the "Writing style" drop down) and make sure that "Spaces required between sentences" is set to what you want. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Hello! Until recently my grammar checker (Word 2010) would show additional spacing added between words with a wiggly green line. Now it ignores that additional spacing. How can I restore it? I've gone to file/options/proofreading/ BUT cannot find a suitable category to click or unclick. Thanks Kathy -- kathyturner- -- kathyturner -- kathyturner |
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Thanks Stefan, Suzanne, and Peter:
It is true Suzanne! Grammar checker will only recognise ONE double spacing in a document at a time. Once one is fixed, it moves onto the next. Then I fix that, and the next error appears. Unbelievable!! You wouldn't want to have a long document!! Grammar checker did not do this (for me) until recently. Peter - yes your idea of using 'replace' works nicely for catching all double spaces. But it doesn't let me see WHERE the errors were and it doesn't catch any other errors e.g. a space left after a quotation mark. (I need both of these as I'm using WORD to help proofread documents). Something has changed in WORD 2010???? I really MUCH PREFERRED the earlier version of Word that I had (2003??? 2007???) - it worked really well. With Word 2010 (maybe just because it is click-to-run) there are more problems (and it has lost some really lovely features of earlier versions, such as the ability to create a sound object with a click!). Kathy |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
On Sep 16, 5:59*pm, kathyturner
wrote: Thanks Stefan, Suzanne, and Peter: It is true Suzanne! Grammar checker will only recognise ONE double spacing in a document at a time. Once one is fixed, it moves onto the next. Then I fix that, and the next error appears. Unbelievable!! You wouldn't want to have a long document!! Grammar checker did not do this (for me) until recently. Peter - yes your idea of using 'replace' works nicely for catching all double spaces. But it doesn't let me see WHERE the errors were and it doesn't catch any other errors e.g. a space left after a quotation mark. (I need both of these as I'm using WORD to help proofread documents). Then instead of "Replace All," just use "Replace," and it takes you to the next instance. (But why would you need to see where they are? They're never desirable.) Again, you can search Left-open-quote+space. Something has changed in WORD 2010???? I really MUCH PREFERRED the earlier version of Word that I had (2003??? 2007???) - it worked really well. With Word 2010 *(maybe just because it is click-to-run) there are more problems (and it has lost some really lovely features of earlier versions, such as the ability to create a sound object with a click!). If it had a ribbon, it was 2007. |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
If you still have the installation media for your earlier version, there's
no reason you can't uninstall Word 2010 and reinstall the earlier version. One feature I find I really like about Word 2010, however, is that, when you use simple Find, Word uses the navigation pane and displays all the found instances in it. As for "click-to-run," you don't have to settle for that. You can replace it with a locally installed version. See http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01094_Offic...ick-to-Run.htm. "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan, Suzanne, and Peter: It is true Suzanne! Grammar checker will only recognise ONE double spacing in a document at a time. Once one is fixed, it moves onto the next. Then I fix that, and the next error appears. Unbelievable!! You wouldn't want to have a long document!! Grammar checker did not do this (for me) until recently. Peter - yes your idea of using 'replace' works nicely for catching all double spaces. But it doesn't let me see WHERE the errors were and it doesn't catch any other errors e.g. a space left after a quotation mark. (I need both of these as I'm using WORD to help proofread documents). Something has changed in WORD 2010???? I really MUCH PREFERRED the earlier version of Word that I had (2003??? 2007???) - it worked really well. With Word 2010 (maybe just because it is click-to-run) there are more problems (and it has lost some really lovely features of earlier versions, such as the ability to create a sound object with a click!). Kathy -- kathyturner |
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Get grammar checker to recognise additional spaces between WORDS
Indeed, the Find tab of the Navigation pane is quite useful.
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP On 2012-09-17 14:51, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you still have the installation media for your earlier version, there's no reason you can't uninstall Word 2010 and reinstall the earlier version. One feature I find I really like about Word 2010, however, is that, when you use simple Find, Word uses the navigation pane and displays all the found instances in it. As for "click-to-run," you don't have to settle for that. You can replace it with a locally installed version. See http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01094_Offic...ick-to-Run.htm. "kathyturner" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan, Suzanne, and Peter: It is true Suzanne! Grammar checker will only recognise ONE double spacing in a document at a time. Once one is fixed, it moves onto the next. Then I fix that, and the next error appears. Unbelievable!! You wouldn't want to have a long document!! Grammar checker did not do this (for me) until recently. Peter - yes your idea of using 'replace' works nicely for catching all double spaces. But it doesn't let me see WHERE the errors were and it doesn't catch any other errors e.g. a space left after a quotation mark. (I need both of these as I'm using WORD to help proofread documents). Something has changed in WORD 2010???? I really MUCH PREFERRED the earlier version of Word that I had (2003??? 2007???) - it worked really well. With Word 2010 (maybe just because it is click-to-run) there are more problems (and it has lost some really lovely features of earlier versions, such as the ability to create a sound object with a click!). Kathy |
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Again thanks Stefan, Peter and Suzanne:
Peter - I need to see the spaces as the proofing interface I'm using picks up spelling but not spacing (and as these are scanned old texts - as part of the Distributed Proofreaders working to produce well proofed ebooks for Project Gutenberg - there are quite a few spacing errors) - I thought, cunningly, that I could use Word's Grammar checker as a back up for my eyes in spotting space errors. Ah well ... back to eyes! Thanks for the link Suzanne - I'll switch out of 'click-to-run'. That might even help! I'll have to wait till I get home to do that in a few weeks' time -as I'm travelling at the moment. Yes Suzanne and Stefan the 'find' is helpful! Kathy |
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