Although adding the nonbreaking hyphenated words to our custom dictionaries
is a workaround for the problem, most of the time we do not want to add these
words to our custom dictionaries. There are literally hundreds of
nonbreaking hyphenated words in legal documents at our firm, and we do not
want to add them all to our custom dictionaries. Thanks for the workarounds,
but we want Microsoft to fix this bug so that Word acts as it did in earlier
versions where we could "Ignore All" instances of a nonbreaking hyphenated
word. The real issue is (1) Word 2007's handling of words with nonbreaking
hyphens during spell-check is buggy, and (2) how do we let Microsoft know
this needs to be fixed? There must be some way to notify them of an obvious
bug, or get some kind of response from someone on their team. It seems odd
that literally every kind of software firm has some kind of responsive
product support group - except Microsoft.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Have you tried adding the hyphenated word to you custom dictionary?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"rgille" wrote in message
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Hi - Is there any way (email address or website) to report Word 2007 bugs
to
Micosoft? For example, in Word 2007, if you use a nonbreaking hyphen to
join
two words, the new combined word is flagged as misspelled (which is fine),
but then you cannot "Ignore All" instances of the combined word when doing
a
spell-check. Wen doing a spell-check, you must ignore each individual
instance of the combined word throughout the document. As you can
imagine,
if you have a proper name that includes a nonbreaking hyphen on every page
of
a 200 page contract, individually ignoring each instance of the combined
word
during spell-check can get very annoying very quickly. Thanks for any
replies!