Bug in Word 2007 Spelling and Grammar Check

[munchcolo]

When working with a Word 2007 document (.docx), the spelling and grammar
errors that you choose to ignore (either "Ignore Once" or "Ignore Rule")
should be saved and should not reappear when you reopen the documents and run
the spelling and grammar check again, but this is not always the case. It
only works correctly if you're working with a document that doesn't have
headers or footers. If you add headers or footers, the ignored errors are
not saved and reappear when you reopen the documents. Here's what I mean:

1. Open Word 2007
2. Type in a couple of sentences containing obvious spelling and grammar
errors.
3. Run spelling and grammar check, but don’t correct the errors. Instead,
tell it to ignore the errors. Save the document.
4. Open the document. The spelling and grammars you told it to ignore do
not show up. This is the way it is supposed to work.
5. Here's where the problem appears:
6. With that same document, go to Insert and add a header or footer. You
don’t even need to type in anything in the header or footer space.
7. When you add the header or footer, the previously ignored errors
reappear. You can run the spelling and grammar check again, tell it to
ignore the errors, save the document, and close it. But when you reopen the
document, the errors keep showing up like a bad penny, and you can’t get rid
of them.

This is driving me crazy. I will often create a document with headers or
footers, run the spelling and grammar check, tell it to ignore certain
errors, and save. When I open the document, the errors that I told it to
ignore reappear. Any suggestions?

 

[Terry Farrell]

This is how all version of Word work. Ignore only applies for the current
editing session. When you restart Word and open the document, the same
errors will be underlined.

 

[munchcolo]

This is how all version of Word work. Ignore only applies for the current
editing session. When you restart Word and open the document, the same
errors will be underlined.

I don't know about Word 2003 (never used it), but this is NOT how Word 2002

 

[munchcolo]

EDIT: Accidentally hit a wrong key before I was finished with the reply.

I don't know about Word 2003 (never used it), but this is NOT how Word 2002
worked. In Word 2002, when you ran the check and told it to ignore certain
spelling or grammar errors and saved, those same errors would not reappear
upon reopening the document.

 

[munchcolo]

After spending a couple of hours on the phone with Microsoft support this
morning, I got it solved. Here's what to do.

Go to Word Options, click Advanced. Under Save, uncheck the box
"Allow background saves." I don't know why this works, but it does.
After running spelling and grammar check and telling it to ignore
certain errors, then saving and closing the document, those same
errors DO NOT reappear when I reopen the document. If I check the box
"Allow background saves," the errors DO reappear when I reopen the
document.

 

[Julian]

After spending a couple of hours on the phone with Microsoft support this
morning, I got it solved.

You must have the tenacity of... someone extremely tenacious Great info,
has been annoying me for ages.

Julia

 

[mark-luce]

munchcolo wrote on 03/02/2007 12:16 ET

After spending a couple of hours on the phone with Microsoft support thi
morning, I got it solved. Here's what to do

Go to Word Options, click Advanced. Under Save, uncheck the bo
"Allow background saves." I don't know why this works, but it does
After running spelling and grammar check and telling it to ignor
certain errors, then saving and closing the document, those sam
errors DO NOT reappear when I reopen the document. If I check the bo
"Allow background saves," the errors DO reappear when I reopen th
document

I'm sorry to report munchcolo and Julia, that this solution to the "Ignor
Rule (Grammar)" does not work. It is not solved; I haven't read further i
this thread and I'm aware you posted this in 2007 and my reply is in March o
2013 but I'm searching for a solution to this problem and came across thi
forum; I've searched for a solution but I haven't found one...yet; maybe ther
is none, but it is quite annoying and about the only downside to Word. Thi
problem has been bugging me for years and only recently I've been needing t
work on documents that are quite large and I need to open them everyda
sometimes for a few weeks and the daily sight of seeing these same underline
grammar errors - which are not errors in the IT world of xml - is visually a
extremely annoying sight that distracts from the work at hand
If I find one I will come back and post it
Kind regards
Mark Luce