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Fomating proper name Summer
How do I get Word to stop telling me that the proper name of a person,
Summer, is incorrect as it has determined that I refer to the season, not a woman? I know many ladies named after seasons, however, I do not wish to turn that function off completely. (I have a cousins named December, April, May, June, and know people named, Summer and Winter.) I write some lengthy tales at times and every time I open the document to add to it, I am promted to fix my errors that are not errors. If I can just have Word ignore the word Summer in this document, I'll take responsibility for making certain should I refer to a season it shall not be capitalized. Thank you for any help you can give. |
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Fomating proper name Summer
Hi Fholman,
Have you tries adding the names to your custom dictionary (ie the 'add' option when the spellchecker thinks its found an error but you think the spelling is correct)? Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Fholman1" wrote in message ... How do I get Word to stop telling me that the proper name of a person, Summer, is incorrect as it has determined that I refer to the season, not a woman? I know many ladies named after seasons, however, I do not wish to turn that function off completely. (I have a cousins named December, April, May, June, and know people named, Summer and Winter.) I write some lengthy tales at times and every time I open the document to add to it, I am promted to fix my errors that are not errors. If I can just have Word ignore the word Summer in this document, I'll take responsibility for making certain should I refer to a season it shall not be capitalized. Thank you for any help you can give. |
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Fomating proper name Summer
Sorry Macropod, it doesn't claim a misspelling, it claims a grammar error for
using a capital when Word believes it should be lower case. The difference being: This summer we went camping. Last weekend Summer and I went camping. Paste both into Word and see the results. Change the second sentence to: Last weekend Mary and I went camping. You now see my dilemma. Word wants me to make it incorrect. "macropod" wrote: Hi Fholman, Have you tries adding the names to your custom dictionary (ie the 'add' option when the spellchecker thinks its found an error but you think the spelling is correct)? Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Fholman1" wrote in message ... How do I get Word to stop telling me that the proper name of a person, Summer, is incorrect as it has determined that I refer to the season, not a woman? I know many ladies named after seasons, however, I do not wish to turn that function off completely. (I have a cousins named December, April, May, June, and know people named, Summer and Winter.) I write some lengthy tales at times and every time I open the document to add to it, I am promted to fix my errors that are not errors. If I can just have Word ignore the word Summer in this document, I'll take responsibility for making certain should I refer to a season it shall not be capitalized. Thank you for any help you can give. |
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Fomating proper name Summer
Hi Fholman,
In that case, you could tell the grammar checker to ignore the rule (capitalization), but that would apply to other words as well. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Fholman1" wrote in message ... Sorry Macropod, it doesn't claim a misspelling, it claims a grammar error for using a capital when Word believes it should be lower case. The difference being: This summer we went camping. Last weekend Summer and I went camping. Paste both into Word and see the results. Change the second sentence to: Last weekend Mary and I went camping. You now see my dilemma. Word wants me to make it incorrect. "macropod" wrote: Hi Fholman, Have you tries adding the names to your custom dictionary (ie the 'add' option when the spellchecker thinks its found an error but you think the spelling is correct)? Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "Fholman1" wrote in message ... How do I get Word to stop telling me that the proper name of a person, Summer, is incorrect as it has determined that I refer to the season, not a woman? I know many ladies named after seasons, however, I do not wish to turn that function off completely. (I have a cousins named December, April, May, June, and know people named, Summer and Winter.) I write some lengthy tales at times and every time I open the document to add to it, I am promted to fix my errors that are not errors. If I can just have Word ignore the word Summer in this document, I'll take responsibility for making certain should I refer to a season it shall not be capitalized. Thank you for any help you can give. |
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Fomating proper name Summer
"Fholman1" wrote
it doesn't claim a misspelling, it claims a grammar error for using a capital when Word believes it should be lower case. First of all this isn't "grammar"; it's still spelling. In any case, I suggest you turn off the "grammar checker" in Word entirely and use the one built into your brain instead. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Fomating proper name Summer
I am using it. However, without our complaints how can Microsoft learn of
the problems with their software? By the way, in Word, a red underline means the Spell Checker has determined there is a spelling error. The instance I refer to has a green underline meaning the Grammar Checker deems it an error. A spelling error can be "Ignore all", where you must "Ignore Once" in this case. I cannot even "Ignore Rule". Turning the whole thing off is the same as saying, "The air conditioner in my new car doesn't work. I'll just leave it off." "Opinicus" wrote: "Fholman1" wrote it doesn't claim a misspelling, it claims a grammar error for using a capital when Word believes it should be lower case. First of all this isn't "grammar"; it's still spelling. In any case, I suggest you turn off the "grammar checker" in Word entirely and use the one built into your brain instead. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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