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Word 2003 "corrects" spelling when I insert an optional hyphen
When I manually insert an optional hyphen (Ctrl+-) in certain words, Word
will automatically "correct" the word, so it makes the first part correct but the whole word wrong! For instance, if I insert this optional hyphen: documen-tation, Word will insert another "t" before the hyphen so it changes to document-tation. How do I keep this from happening? I don't see anything in Options or AutoCorrect settings that would cause this. |
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Word 2003 "corrects" spelling when I insert an optional hyphen
I have seen this as well. The results can be even more dramatic when an
AutoCorrect entry has been defined for the first part of the word and it expands into a long phrase! This has been bugged to MS with the strong suggestion that an optional hyphen should not be a punctuation mark that triggers an AutoCorrect action, but AFAIK, nothing has been done about this. I'll bug it again. For the time being, you just need to be alert when you insert an optional hyphen and Undo the unwanted AutoCorrect action with Ctrl+Z. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Cathy G" wrote in message ... When I manually insert an optional hyphen (Ctrl+-) in certain words, Word will automatically "correct" the word, so it makes the first part correct but the whole word wrong! For instance, if I insert this optional hyphen: documen-tation, Word will insert another "t" before the hyphen so it changes to document-tation. How do I keep this from happening? I don't see anything in Options or AutoCorrect settings that would cause this. |
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Word 2003 "corrects" spelling when I insert an optional hyphen
Thank you, Suzanne. I try to be alert and fix them as I go, but it sure is
annoying to have to do that! At least I know I'm not the only one that this has happened to. Cathy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have seen this as well. The results can be even more dramatic when an AutoCorrect entry has been defined for the first part of the word and it expands into a long phrase! This has been bugged to MS with the strong suggestion that an optional hyphen should not be a punctuation mark that triggers an AutoCorrect action, but AFAIK, nothing has been done about this. I'll bug it again. For the time being, you just need to be alert when you insert an optional hyphen and Undo the unwanted AutoCorrect action with Ctrl+Z. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Cathy G" wrote in message ... When I manually insert an optional hyphen (Ctrl+-) in certain words, Word will automatically "correct" the word, so it makes the first part correct but the whole word wrong! For instance, if I insert this optional hyphen: documen-tation, Word will insert another "t" before the hyphen so it changes to document-tation. How do I keep this from happening? I don't see anything in Options or AutoCorrect settings that would cause this. |
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Word 2003 "corrects" spelling when I insert an optional hyphen
The way I discovered this (before I just thought the spelling checker was
weird) was when a client found a puzzling "typo" on a page of his press-ready book copy. When I first looked at it, I couldn't imagine what had happened, but it gradually dawned on me that it was AutoCorrect. I don't use automatic hyphenation; after editing is complete on a book and I have the pages laid out, I go through looking for "loose" lines and tighten them up with optional hyphens. I had not noticed when I did this that the first part of a word was the trigger for a long phrase that had jumped into the middle of the text (thereby wrenching it further out of shape, since this may well have added a line to the paragraph). I wish I could remember what the phrase and trigger were, but it was quite comical (but horrifying) in effect. It was something on the order of, say, "ami" as a shortcut for "American National Bank" (not that I would probably use "ami," given the likelihood of that appearing naturally), and when I split "amiable," it became "American National Bank-able." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Cathy G" wrote in message ... Thank you, Suzanne. I try to be alert and fix them as I go, but it sure is annoying to have to do that! At least I know I'm not the only one that this has happened to. Cathy "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have seen this as well. The results can be even more dramatic when an AutoCorrect entry has been defined for the first part of the word and it expands into a long phrase! This has been bugged to MS with the strong suggestion that an optional hyphen should not be a punctuation mark that triggers an AutoCorrect action, but AFAIK, nothing has been done about this. I'll bug it again. For the time being, you just need to be alert when you insert an optional hyphen and Undo the unwanted AutoCorrect action with Ctrl+Z. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Cathy G" wrote in message ... When I manually insert an optional hyphen (Ctrl+-) in certain words, Word will automatically "correct" the word, so it makes the first part correct but the whole word wrong! For instance, if I insert this optional hyphen: documen-tation, Word will insert another "t" before the hyphen so it changes to document-tation. How do I keep this from happening? I don't see anything in Options or AutoCorrect settings that would cause this. |
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