Speller ignores misspellings Pat Cortez 21.08.2006 22:12:58 I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when spelled checked: Where r u going? What do u want to du? We will b stumped this afternoon. R u going away? Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been applied. Thanks in advance. Pat

Re: Speller ignores misspellings "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 21.08.2006 22:21:52 My guess is that you didn't pay the girl extra to else your why. Pat Cortez wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when spelled > checked: > Where r u going? > What do u want to du? > We will b stumped this afternoon. > R u going away? > > Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and > AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been applied. > Thanks in advance. Pat

Re: Speller ignores misspellings "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 22.08.2006 03:44:49 I would guess that the spell checker does no recognise the individual letters as words so that it does not bother checking them. The exception is the du? which is probably also ignored because of the ?. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Pat Cortez" <PatCortez[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6391C348-06E4-413D-A15C-C4F71E983F36[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when >spelled > checked: > Where r u going? > What do u want to du? > We will b stumped this afternoon. > R u going away? > > Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and > AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been > applied. > Thanks in advance. Pat

Re: Speller ignores misspellings "Opinicus" <gezgin[ at ]spamcop.net> 22.08.2006 04:48:08 "Pat Cortez" <PatCortez[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote [Quoted Text] >I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when >spelled > checked: > Where r u going? > What do u want to du? > We will b stumped this afternoon. > R u going away? Word doesn't recognize isolated letters as errors. I'm using Office XP (Word 2002) and it does catch "du" but not the single letters. I just experimented with putting single letters like "b", "r", "u" on separate lines in the exception dictionary but that doesn't result in their being caught as errors either. >:-( -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com

Re: Speller ignores misspellings Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] 27.08.2006 05:15:02 Hi, Thanks for the question. This is in fact by design. Single letters are always considered as correct by the spell-checker. I guess nobody would like to see a red squiggle under letters in lists of items (a. Do this; b. Do that...) or in sentences like "A, b and c are the first letters of the alphabet". Best wishes, Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] "Opinicus" wrote: [Quoted Text] > "Pat Cortez" <PatCortez[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote > > >I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when > >spelled > > checked: > > Where r u going? > > What do u want to du? > > We will b stumped this afternoon. > > R u going away? > > Word doesn't recognize isolated letters as errors. I'm using Office XP (Word > 2002) and it does catch "du" but not the single letters. > > I just experimented with putting single letters like "b", "r", "u" on > separate lines in the exception dictionary but that doesn't result in their > being caught as errors either. >:-( > > -- > Bob > http://www.kanyak.com > > >