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Persistent 'Do not check spelling or grammar'
What is the secret to turning this feature OFF throughout a whole document?
(Or, better for our purposes, turning it off permanently?) Increasingly now we see specific files suddenly ignore the spell-checker. The skipped words haven't been accidentally added to the custom dictionary, and every attempt to disable the NoProofing feature, whether manually or resetting all the styles via VBA (which is not as straightforward as ya'd think), fails; the box in Tools Language Set Language always shows up "half-X'd" when you select the whole doc and look at it. What's the purpose of that feature anyway? (I've only ever used it to skip biological terms in docs that overflow with them.) And why does it suddenly & unexplainably seem to add itself to parts of a document? Does it have to do with where said parts might've been pasted from? (Haven't seen evidence for that, just grasping at straws.) Word 2003 SP2, Win XP. TIA Mark |
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Persistent 'Do not check spelling or grammar'
Language settings can ride in on a pasted clip as small as a single
character and infect the rest of the doc (if you start typing at that point). There are certainly uses for this formatting. For example, if you're using the Plain Text style to type programming code, you might want to add the "no proofing" property to it. Ultimately, you just have to keep using Ctrl+A, Tools | Language | Set Language | clear the check box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... What is the secret to turning this feature OFF throughout a whole document? (Or, better for our purposes, turning it off permanently?) Increasingly now we see specific files suddenly ignore the spell-checker. The skipped words haven't been accidentally added to the custom dictionary, and every attempt to disable the NoProofing feature, whether manually or resetting all the styles via VBA (which is not as straightforward as ya'd think), fails; the box in Tools Language Set Language always shows up "half-X'd" when you select the whole doc and look at it. What's the purpose of that feature anyway? (I've only ever used it to skip biological terms in docs that overflow with them.) And why does it suddenly & unexplainably seem to add itself to parts of a document? Does it have to do with where said parts might've been pasted from? (Haven't seen evidence for that, just grasping at straws.) Word 2003 SP2, Win XP. TIA Mark |
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Persistent 'Do not check spelling or grammar'
But that's just the issue. Doing those exact steps *doesn't* disable the
Do-not-check feature. If we click Tools-Lang-SetLang right away after supposedly enabling Do-not-check for the whole file (i.e., without adding even a single character to the document), the Do-not-check box is *still* gray-checked, and misspelled words continue to elude the checker. This can't be by design. MT Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Language settings can ride in on a pasted clip as small as a single character and infect the rest of the doc (if you start typing at that point). There are certainly uses for this formatting. For example, if you're using the Plain Text style to type programming code, you might want to add the "no proofing" property to it. Ultimately, you just have to keep using Ctrl+A, Tools | Language | Set Language | clear the check box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... What is the secret to turning this feature OFF throughout a whole document? (Or, better for our purposes, turning it off permanently?) Increasingly now we see specific files suddenly ignore the spell-checker. The skipped words haven't been accidentally added to the custom dictionary, and every attempt to disable the NoProofing feature, whether manually or resetting all the styles via VBA (which is not as straightforward as ya'd think), fails; the box in Tools Language Set Language always shows up "half-X'd" when you select the whole doc and look at it. What's the purpose of that feature anyway? (I've only ever used it to skip biological terms in docs that overflow with them.) And why does it suddenly & unexplainably seem to add itself to parts of a document? Does it have to do with where said parts might've been pasted from? (Haven't seen evidence for that, just grasping at straws.) Word 2003 SP2, Win XP. TIA Mark |
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Persistent 'Do not check spelling or grammar'
What you're saying is inconsistent: Why are you *enabling* "Do not check"
and then expecting the spelling checker to work? Also, note that Ctrl+A selects only the document body (and perhaps included text boxes); it doesn't necessarily include the header/footer, footnotes, etc. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... But that's just the issue. Doing those exact steps *doesn't* disable the Do-not-check feature. If we click Tools-Lang-SetLang right away after supposedly enabling Do-not-check for the whole file (i.e., without adding even a single character to the document), the Do-not-check box is *still* gray-checked, and misspelled words continue to elude the checker. This can't be by design. MT Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Language settings can ride in on a pasted clip as small as a single character and infect the rest of the doc (if you start typing at that point). There are certainly uses for this formatting. For example, if you're using the Plain Text style to type programming code, you might want to add the "no proofing" property to it. Ultimately, you just have to keep using Ctrl+A, Tools | Language | Set Language | clear the check box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... What is the secret to turning this feature OFF throughout a whole document? (Or, better for our purposes, turning it off permanently?) Increasingly now we see specific files suddenly ignore the spell-checker. The skipped words haven't been accidentally added to the custom dictionary, and every attempt to disable the NoProofing feature, whether manually or resetting all the styles via VBA (which is not as straightforward as ya'd think), fails; the box in Tools Language Set Language always shows up "half-X'd" when you select the whole doc and look at it. What's the purpose of that feature anyway? (I've only ever used it to skip biological terms in docs that overflow with them.) And why does it suddenly & unexplainably seem to add itself to parts of a document? Does it have to do with where said parts might've been pasted from? (Haven't seen evidence for that, just grasping at straws.) Word 2003 SP2, Win XP. TIA Mark |
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Persistent 'Do not check spelling or grammar'
Oh, sorry, the double negative fried me a bit. I meant *disabling* DontCheck.
This is more than just failing to proof odd stuff like text boxes. It skips ordinary material in the text layer that has misspelled words in it. Doesn't matter if we select the whole document or a single paragraph with bloopers in it; the checker doesn't see them. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: What you're saying is inconsistent: Why are you *enabling* "Do not check" and then expecting the spelling checker to work? Also, note that Ctrl+A selects only the document body (and perhaps included text boxes); it doesn't necessarily include the header/footer, footnotes, etc. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... But that's just the issue. Doing those exact steps *doesn't* disable the Do-not-check feature. If we click Tools-Lang-SetLang right away after supposedly enabling Do-not-check for the whole file (i.e., without adding even a single character to the document), the Do-not-check box is *still* gray-checked, and misspelled words continue to elude the checker. This can't be by design. MT Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Language settings can ride in on a pasted clip as small as a single character and infect the rest of the doc (if you start typing at that point). There are certainly uses for this formatting. For example, if you're using the Plain Text style to type programming code, you might want to add the "no proofing" property to it. Ultimately, you just have to keep using Ctrl+A, Tools | Language | Set Language | clear the check box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Mark Tangard" wrote in message ... What is the secret to turning this feature OFF throughout a whole document? (Or, better for our purposes, turning it off permanently?) Increasingly now we see specific files suddenly ignore the spell-checker. The skipped words haven't been accidentally added to the custom dictionary, and every attempt to disable the NoProofing feature, whether manually or resetting all the styles via VBA (which is not as straightforward as ya'd think), fails; the box in Tools Language Set Language always shows up "half-X'd" when you select the whole doc and look at it. What's the purpose of that feature anyway? (I've only ever used it to skip biological terms in docs that overflow with them.) And why does it suddenly & unexplainably seem to add itself to parts of a document? Does it have to do with where said parts might've been pasted from? (Haven't seen evidence for that, just grasping at straws.) Word 2003 SP2, Win XP. TIA Mark |
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