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possessives and plurals in Word 2007
Everytime I type "it's" rather than "it is" or "can't" rather than "cannot"
the spell/grammar checker in Word 2007 flags it as wrong. Arrgghh! It's not wrong and I'm sick of it telling me it is. Why does Word continue to do this despite me changing settings in Word Options to not do this? As an example, in this message it's telling me "everytime" should be spelled every time. No it shouldn't. There is nothing wrong with the spelling of the word "everytime". |
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possessives and plurals in Word 2007
Point 1: "everytime" is not correct under the rules of standard English
usage. See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/everytime for more information. You could add it to the dictionary, but then it would only be correct for you, and for anyone else opening your document, it would still be flagged as a spelling error. Point 2: I suspect that your contractions are being identified as "errors" because grammar checking is set to flag contractions, and it's possible that you have just missed it. Easy enough to do since it's buried pretty deeply. I'm not quite sure where it is in Word 2007, not having access to my 2007 machine at the moment, but in 2003 it's found under: Tools | Options... 'Spelling & Grammar' tab, 'Setting...' button, 'Grammar Settings' dialog, scroll down to the 'Style' section and clear the 'Contractions' checkbox. It's probably in someplace similar in 2007. -- Cheers! Gordon Bentley-Mix Word MVP Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup. Read the original version of this post in the Office Discussion Groups - no membership required! "Speedwagon" wrote: Everytime I type "it's" rather than "it is" or "can't" rather than "cannot" the spell/grammar checker in Word 2007 flags it as wrong. Arrgghh! It's not wrong and I'm sick of it telling me it is. Why does Word continue to do this despite me changing settings in Word Options to not do this? As an example, in this message it's telling me "everytime" should be spelled every time. No it shouldn't. There is nothing wrong with the spelling of the word "everytime". |
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