spell check and and saving

[Jim462002]

In Office 2007 I spell check a Word document, then save it.

But when I re-open the document...all of the same words are highlighted as
if the spelling and grammar checks had never happened. I've tried it several
times. I did not manipulate the doucment in any way.

Am I missing a setting somewhere?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Are you changing the spellings to the correct spellings and/or adding
unknown words to the custom dictionary?

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[Jim462002]

No...not changing any words...they are all proper nouns and spelled correctly

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If they are not in the dictionary, then, as far as Word is concerned, they
are misspelled. You are telling Word to "ignore" them, but that lasts only
for a given document session. If you want Word to *really* ignore them
permanently, you need to apply a character style formatted as "Do not check
spelling or grammar."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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[M.A. Caro]

Dear Suzanne,

I have been trying to find a definitive statement about the spell check
"ignore" feature being only active per session and thank you for spelling
that out for me. (Sorry for the pun.)

I have to say, however, that to me it seems arbitrary. I've tried to create
short test documents with spelling errors. I run the spell check and ignore
them. I save and shut down Word, and all other Office products. (I'm using
Office 2007 on Vista) Sometimes the changes are ignored in subsequent
sessions, sometimes they're not.

This is maddening, especially when writing long texts. The advantages of
“ignore all†are irreplaceable when working with hundreds of pages of text.
I’m curious about how publishers go about doing this kind of spell checking
work. I wonder if there is a third-party solution to this?

As far as your suggestion to create a character style that does not check
spelling and grammar, it would have to be applied to each individual
occurrence of the unrecognized word.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Yours,
M.A. Caro

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If there are many instances of an unrecognized word, you could add it to
your user dictionary. Or you could use Replace to search for the word and
apply the No Proofing character style.

I'll take your word for it that Ignore is sometimes persistent. I don't rely
very heavily on the spelling checker, and I tend to just personally "ignore"
marking on words I know are spelled correctly.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

If you add each proper name to your Custom Dictionary (that would be
the "Add" button rather than the "Ignore" button the first time it
comes to it), then it will be ignored forever after. (You can set up
several Custom Dictionaries if you have different client sets, for
instance.)