Reset Spell Check

[Quin in Indy]

One of my student's pointed out that there is no provision to reset the
ignored words in spell checking a PP slide show. In Word, under
Tools>Options>Spelling~ you can tell the program to recheck or check the
document. This turns off all the ignore flags and lets you recheck the doc
from scratch.

Where is this function in PowerPoint?

TIA
QAL

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You are correct. There is no 'reset the ignore all' within a PowerPoint
session, but closing and restarting PowerPoint will restore all the ignore
settings. If you are talking about resetting the words added to the
dictionary, than that is somewhat different.

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[Quin in Indy]

Thanks for the the quick reply, unfortunately closing and restarting does not
reset the flags. I just tried your suggestion and no joy. None of the
ignored words showed up as spelled wrong when the slides were rechecked after
closing and reopening PP. I did save the presentation before closing.

I want to be able to reset this so I can recheck student's assignments for
spelling.

The problem is with PowerPoint 2003 (build 11.6361.6360) SP1 on both Windows
2000 Pro and XP Pro systems.

Any other suggestions on how to reset the flags?

QAL

 

[Sonia]

If you save the presentation as HTML or MHT and close it, then open the HTML (or
MHT) file the spelling errors will reappear.

 

[Quin in Indy]

Thank you Sonia for the fast reply, but this is just a work around, not a
solution. Is there anyone working on a fix to this undocumented feature or
will the steps of bouncing a presentation to HTML and back become the
documented way for people to recheck their spelling in PowerPoint
Presentations where the user inadvertantly hit ignore?

Perhaps a a click through box could be added to tell the user they only get
one real shot at doing the spell check? Perhaps then they could be told that
if they ignore a word, it will be a royal pain to return to it?

The functionality of reseting the ignore flags exists in other Office
products, why not PP?

TIA
Quin

 

[Quin in Indy]

Steve, thanks for checking.

This behavior of traveling "ignore"'s is common among Office apps. I ran
across it while grading Word assignments. I found several mispellings and
grammar issues that students swore were not displayed, via under swiggles, on
their computers. A quick check of the lab's computers revealed that serveral
items were being ignored until the spell/grammar checker was reset. Once
Word was told to (re)check te document, all the errors showed up.

When I review assignments on my computers, I reset the document as a matter
of course. This way I can find quickly mistakes that the student told Word
to ignore.

Of course silly me told my students to do the same reset in PowerPoint, and
thus started this thread.

Now I guess the question is whether or not this issue will move high enough
in the bug list to get addressed?

Quin

 

[jstammer]

I think I figured out how to reset the spell checker in PowerPoint.

If you accidentally hit "ignore all" on a misspelled word while doing a
spell check in PowerPoint and want to reset it, try this:

Go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > SPELLING AND STYLE

and uncheck "Check spelling as you type"
then hit OK

Then go back to the same dialog box and recheck "Check spelling as you
type"

and that seems to do the trick !!!!

Jodi

Steve, thanks for checking.

No problem. Sorry I wasn't able to find a "fix".

I'd suggest that you follow the link here:

Contact Microsoft: Use MSWish to request features, report problems, etc.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00545.htm

and submit a report.

This behavior of traveling "ignore"'s is common among Office apps. I ran
across it while grading Word assignments. I found several mispellings and
grammar issues that students swore were not displayed, via under swiggles, on
their computers. A quick check of the lab's computers revealed that serveral
items were being ignored until the spell/grammar checker was reset. Once
Word was told to (re)check te document, all the errors showed up.

When I review assignments on my computers, I reset the document as a matter
of course. This way I can find quickly mistakes that the student told Word
to ignore.

Of course silly me told my students to do the same reset in PowerPoint, and
thus started this thread.

Now I guess the question is whether or not this issue will move high enough
in the bug list to get addressed?

Quin

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Excellent find, Jodi.

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I think I figured out how to reset the spell checker in PowerPoint.

If you accidentally hit "ignore all" on a misspelled word while doing a
spell check in PowerPoint and want to reset it, try this:

Go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > SPELLING AND STYLE

and uncheck "Check spelling as you type"
then hit OK

Then go back to the same dialog box and recheck "Check spelling as you
type"

and that seems to do the trick !!!!

Jodi

 

[Frankie]

I am having so much trouble in getting the music to play consistently
throughout the presentation. The music re-starts on every slide instead of
continuing to play right on through. Any help is totally appreciated.
Frankie

 

[Kathy J]

Frankie,
Did you insert the music on the first slide or on the master slide? It
sounds like you put it on the master slide. Move it to the first slide, then
go read this entry from Steve Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm

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