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Spell checker bug - cost big $$$
I typeset a book in Word 2003, SP1. I had it professionally edited via
revision tracking. Knowing the risks of changing a "finished" product, I edited some of the front chapters. Since these were limited changes, I proofed my own work and relied on spell checker to flag typos. This turned out to burn me bad due to what I can only call a bug in the Word spell checker. Most typos were flagged and corrected. But, some words were not. I've tried everything from setting the "recheck document" option in spelling and grammer options, to checking the Language options to ensure that spell checking would occur. For some reason, in certain places in my document, spelling errors are not flagged. They are not flagged as I type them (even though this option is turned on), and they are not flagged when I run spell check. I turned off all grammar checking thinking that it might interfere with spell checking. But, it made no difference. Is there a known issue with spell checker not working on portions (sections) of a document? Are there any known issues with spell checker not working properly in conjunction with revision tracking? jimbo |
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Here's a bit more info on this problem.
I copied this section of text into a new document where spell checking was flagging words, and none of the misspelled words in the copied text were flagged! Also, I was able to insert a known misspelled word from another section in the document into the section that was not flagging errors. To my surprise, I saw the copied misspelled word flagged! But, if inserted a bad character into the words before and after it to make those words misspelled, Word did not flag them. It's as if Word has excluded the section's text from spell checking. This is *very* wierd. |
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The "do not check" formatting is essentially character formatting. It can
apply to a single word, a sentence, or a paragraph. The text which is not being checked is almost certainly so formatted. This isn't something that you turn on/off for an entire document; you can turn it on/off for selected text. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Jimbo Mambo" Jimbo wrote in message news Here's a bit more info on this problem. I copied this section of text into a new document where spell checking was flagging words, and none of the misspelled words in the copied text were flagged! Also, I was able to insert a known misspelled word from another section in the document into the section that was not flagging errors. To my surprise, I saw the copied misspelled word flagged! But, if inserted a bad character into the words before and after it to make those words misspelled, Word did not flag them. It's as if Word has excluded the section's text from spell checking. This is *very* wierd. |
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