Spellchecking

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William Oertell

Why can't Word (and other programs, for that matter) assume that a word with
a first capital letter in the middle of a sentence is a proper noun and not
spellcheck it? At least it ought to be a button in the spellchecking
options, say an option that says, "Ignore mid-sentence first caps." Just my
$0.02 worth. The spellchecker can be really annoying when you've got a lot
of place names or proper nouns in the document.

Bill
 
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Mike Williams [MVP]

William said:
Why can't Word (and other programs, for that matter) assume that a
word with a first capital letter in the middle of a sentence is a
proper noun and not spellcheck it? At least it ought to be a button
in the spellchecking options, say an option that says, "Ignore
mid-sentence first caps." Just my $0.02 worth. The spellchecker can
be really annoying when you've got a lot of place names or proper
nouns in the document.
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The spell-checker is not aware of context. It does not know whether a word
is in a sentence, a list or a lone word sitting on a page.

You can mark individual words or blocks of text to skip spell-checking.



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