Automatic spelling in Office 2001 for Mac

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olivier

How can I get rid of the automatic spelling corrections or typing that
Entourage forces down my throat? I write in French most of the time,
and I don't want to have «don't» automatically entered when I want to
write «dont», or automatic capitalisation everytime I type a period, or
do a return, or have «1. (plus indent)» when I want «1) -», etc... This is
not the way French works. I unchecked everything related to grammar,
spelling and dictionaries in Word, but it has no effect in Entourage.
Now, my Mac OS is English, but my keyboard is (Canadian) French. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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Bernard REY

olivier wrote :
How can I get rid of the automatic spelling corrections or typing that
Entourage forces down my throat? I write in French most of the time,
and I don't want to have «don't» automatically entered when I want to
write «dont», or automatic capitalisation everytime I type a period, or
do a return, or have «1. (plus indent)» when I want «1) -», etc... This is
not the way French works. I unchecked everything related to grammar,
spelling and dictionaries in Word, but it has no effect in Entourage.
Now, my Mac OS is English, but my keyboard is (Canadian) French. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Two things :

In the "Preferences.../ Générales...", "Orthographe" tab of Entourage,
there's a checkbox to allow automatic corrections. Did you uncheck it?

There was a known bug with the dictionnaries in Entourage:2001. In order to
have the French dictionnary selected, you have to first select any other
dictionnary, then select the one you want ("Français (Canada)" I guess).

I wrote an AppleScript to do this automatically which I used to launch
Entourage. If you're interested, here it is. It requires the "Akua Sweets"
OSAX to work : the "puppet menu" function allowing the selection of submenu
items.

tell application "Finder"
activate
select file "Microsoft Entourage" of folder "Microsoft Office" ¬
of folder "Applications" of startup disk
open selection
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" -- nécessite AKUA Sweets
activate
puppet menu {"Changer de dictionnaire", "Français"}
puppet menu {"Changer de dictionnaire", "Français (Canada)"}
select window "État"
end tell

Akua Sweets can be found here: http://www.akua.com/Software/AkuaSweets/
 
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olivier

-----Original Message-----
How can I get rid of the automatic spelling corrections or typing that
Entourage forces down my throat? I write in French most of the time,
and I don't want to have «don't» automatically entered when I want to
write «dont», or automatic capitalisation everytime I type a period, or
do a return, or have «1. (plus indent)» when I want «1) -», etc... This is
not the way French works. I unchecked everything related to grammar,
spelling and dictionaries in Word, but it has no effect in Entourage.
Now, my Mac OS is English, but my keyboard is (Canadian) French. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
.
Thank you, Bernard. All boxes in the Preferences had been un-
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checked. This is why I was at a loss. Then after asking for help, I found
the real culprit: in the Tools menu, there is an Autocorrect option that
you have to configure. Simple as that. I don't know why I hadn't seen it
before. Thanks anyway for your help.
 
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