Spell checker truely bizzare !!

[OM]

I have a document, with a line

"Travelling Expenses"

formatted as Heading 2 style.

In the parragraph below (that this heading applies to), I have some
comments, and accidentally spelt "travelling" as "traveling". The
interesting thing is, that the Heading 2 "Travelling" showed up as a
spelling mistake (red line under it), and the "Normal" style "travelling"
was OK (no red line). If I changed the Heading 2 word to "traveling", it was
ok, and if I changed the Normal text to "traveling", it showed as a mistake.
I have attempted to put the results in the table below.

Heading 2 Result Normal Result
Travelling Mistake Travelling OK
Traveling Ok traveling mistake

Any ideas on what is happening here - where the same word shows up as OK in
one place, but a spelling mistake in another place ?

Thanks

Rob Lepper

 

[ChrisM]

Hi Rob,

Try as I might, I can't get my copy of word to reproduce this.
Which version of Word are you using? (Help -> About)

Can you make it do it again? If so, give us step by step exactly what you do
to make this happen.

Cheers,

ChrisM.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Are these words formatted with different languages? (In a style or
directly?)

Which version of Word are you using?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Or no proofing set for the one that doesn't show the error.

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[Klaus Linke]

Or no proofing set for the one that doesn't show the error.

I guess "traveling" isn't an error in the US?

Klaus

 

[Graham Mayor]

I guess "traveling" isn't an error in the US?

Klaus

You might not think so had you met their neurotic immigration officials

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[Klaus Linke]

I guess "traveling" isn't an error in the US?

You might not think so had you met their neurotic immigration officials

LOL!

 

[Tonya Marshall]

LOL!

lol ... According to my dictionary (American) traveling is correct and
so is travelling. Travelling is listed as a variation, but correct..
Also traveled or travelled.

 

[OM]

It was on a PC at work, using Word 2000 - when I copied the file onto my
home PC, it didn't happen. I'll have another look at the file on the work
PC - may be a virus.

Rob

 

[Tonya Marshall]

lol ... According to my dictionary (American) traveling is correct and
so is travelling. Travelling is listed as a variation, but correct..
Also traveled or travelled.

I suppose when we traveled to the new world we wanted to rid ourselves
of extra baggage and left a lot of those double letters behind.

 

[Tonya Marshall]

I have a document, with a line

"Travelling Expenses"

formatted as Heading 2 style.

In the parragraph below (that this heading applies to), I have some
comments, and accidentally spelt "travelling" as "traveling". The
interesting thing is, that the Heading 2 "Travelling" showed up as a
spelling mistake (red line under it), and the "Normal" style "travelling"
was OK (no red line). If I changed the Heading 2 word to "traveling", it was
ok, and if I changed the Normal text to "traveling", it showed as a mistake.
I have attempted to put the results in the table below.

Heading 2 Result Normal Result
Travelling Mistake Travelling OK
Traveling Ok traveling mistake

Any ideas on what is happening here - where the same word shows up as OK in
one place, but a spelling mistake in another place ?

Thanks

Rob Lepper

I have WD 2003 and my spelling checker accepts either spelling.

 

[Tonya Marshall]

I have WD 2003 and my spelling checker accepts either spelling.

Well, after a second try, it changes travelling to traveling.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think you'll find that there is a difference in formatting between the two
styles (or paragraphs). Go to Format | Style and see what (if any) language
is specified for the style, or whether No Proofing is part of the style
format. Alternatively, select each paragraph in turn and go to Tools |
Language | Set Language and make sure that "(no proofing)" is not enabled
for some of the text. If you've copied or imported text for the body
paragraph from another source, it's very likely that it's formatted as
"English (U.S.)," whereas the heading that you typed yourself would be
formatted as "English (U.K.)" or the like.