[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm pretty sure that "email" was never marked as an error (even though MS
obviously prefers "e-mail"), but my hypothesis of "Automatically correct"
combined with the exclusion dictionary seems like a possibility, albeit an
unlikely one.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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All of which raises additional questions because I believe that the
"Automatically use suggestions..." option is a relatively new one

I can confirm that it is there in Word 2000 and not in Word 97 (and that
makes it "fairly recent" as far as I'm concerned)

Further, I didn't manage to get "email" to throw up a spelling error in
any earlier (1,2,6,95) Windows version I looked at, although that was
using U.K. English setup options etc. where available.

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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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That suggests that perhaps the conversion is resulting from having
"Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker" checked in
Tools | AutoCorrect Options. That, however, would assume that "email" is
marked as an incorrect spelling and that "e-mail" is the only suggested
correction. But "email" is NOT marked as incorrect in Word 2003 (it may
be in some earlier versions); I checked, and I don't have "email" in my
custom dictionary, so it must be in the built in lexicon.

All of which raises additional questions because I believe that the
"Automatically use suggestions..." option is a relatively new one, and I
would have thought that any version recent enough to have this option
would also have "email" in the lexicon. It could well be that "email"
could have been added to an exclusion dictionary to force the use of
"e-mail," but that theory may also fall down because if no (or multiple)
spelling suggestions are offered for words added to the exclusion
dictionary. I tested with three of my entries: "pubic," "abut," and
"acknowledgement," with the following results:

pubic: no suggestions (I would have hoped for "public")
abut: abuts, about, abet ("about" is what is meant)
acknowledgement: acknowledgements (guess I'd better add that one, too!)

So it's not impossible that this might be the result of having
"Automatically use suggestions" enabled and "email" in the exclusion
dictionary.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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On Jul 30, 6:40 am, wrote:
On Jul 29, 9:08 pm, "Peter Jamieson"
wrote:





It isn't there by default in a U.K. installation of Word 97, Word 95,
or the
16-bit ("ordinary") version of Word 6. Word 1 and 2 did not have
autocorrect
but it isn't a standard entry in the glossary in those versions
either. Word
6 only has 9 Autocorrect entries in it. It doesn't appear to be there
now
(Word 2007).

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Peter Jamiesonhttp://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

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On Jul 29, 4:44 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It would appear that your copy of Word has an AutoCorrect entry for
this
word. It is not present by default, however.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hello,

Do anyone know version of Microsoft Word in which when we type a
word
Email it automatically turn into E-Mail.

I know that we can set option in word to do that BUT i want to
know by
default which version of Word do this.

Many thanks in Advance,

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Thanks Suzanne. What i seem to recall is that is this happening in
Winword 6.0/ Word95 ????

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Hello Suzanne, peter,

You are right that nothing exists in any version of word so far i come
across. The funny thing which i found is that if you type email and do
spell check it suggest it to change to mail BUT if you type e-mail ,
it treats as the correct spelling. In help of word, everywhere they
write e-mail and not email.

Just wanted to share this with you.

Naren