Punctuation

[margitbakke]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Missing periods are not being shown at the end of a sentence.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Well, if they are missing, then they do not exist, which is why the are
not showing?


--rms

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[margitbakke]

I guess I should have clarified that grammar check is not notifying me of them missing. I have punctuation chosen in the preferences. It tells me when I need a comma etc, but not for periods.
Thank you for replying. I am new at this Word stuff, so do not really understand it all yet.

 

[John McGhie]

How can Word know that it is the end of a sentence? Seriously

Sometimes it will guess from the grammar that something is wrong, but the
combination of <any letter>, a <space>, and <any letter> is not sufficiently
unique for Word to know for sure that that's supposed to be the end of the
sentence.

A human brain can do this quite easily from the context: but the brain is
still many orders of magnitude more powerful than the kind of computers that
you and I can afford.

Sorry: You will have to add your own full-stops

Cheers

I guess I should have clarified that grammar check is not notifying me of them
missing. I have punctuation chosen in the preferences. It tells me when I need
a comma etc, but not for periods.
Thank you for replying. I am new at this Word stuff, so do not really
understand it all yet.

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