WORD should spell check at least as well as GOOGLE

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I type a misspelled word: "convered" (which I accidentally added an "n" and
WORD gives be back a list of six words which does not include the word
"covered" which is what I really wished to use. When I GOOGLE "convered",
the search engine detects immediately that I probably meant "covered" and
asks "did you mean covered?". When I used "thourly" in a document and meant
to use "thoroughly", WORD suggested only one word - "thorny", which was not
what I really wanted. When I searched using GOOGLE and typed in the "word"
"thourly", I was prompted with "did you mean thoroughly?".

Since WORD is advertised as having a "spell checker" and GOOGLE is "just" a
search engine, shouldn't the "spell checker" function work better in WORD
than in GOOGLE?

Larry Kirkpatrick


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I type a misspelled word: "convered" (which I accidentally added an
"n" and WORD gives be back a list of six words which does not include
the word "covered" which is what I really wished to use. When I
GOOGLE "convered", the search engine detects immediately that I
probably meant "covered" and asks "did you mean covered?". When I
used "thourly" in a document and meant to use "thoroughly", WORD
suggested only one word - "thorny", which was not what I really
wanted. When I searched using GOOGLE and typed in the "word"
"thourly", I was prompted with "did you mean thoroughly?".

Since WORD is advertised as having a "spell checker" and GOOGLE is
"just" a search engine, shouldn't the "spell checker" function work
better in WORD than in GOOGLE?

Larry Kirkpatrick


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Google isn't using a dictionary: It's just looking for similar search
phrases that have been used before. Apples & oranges I'm afraid.

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I type a misspelled word: "convered" (which I accidentally added an
"n" and WORD gives be back a list of six words which does not include
the word "covered" which is what I really wished to use. When I
GOOGLE "convered", the search engine detects immediately that I
probably meant "covered" and asks "did you mean covered?". When I
used "thourly" in a document and meant to use "thoroughly", WORD
suggested only one word - "thorny", which was not what I really
wanted. When I searched using GOOGLE and typed in the "word"
"thourly", I was prompted with "did you mean thoroughly?".

Since WORD is advertised as having a "spell checker" and GOOGLE is
"just" a search engine, shouldn't the "spell checker" function work
better in WORD than in GOOGLE?

Larry Kirkpatrick


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As a non professional keyboardist, I get frustrated with WORD's spell
checker. I am a better speller than typist. The spell checker should
allow setup of users typing proficiency i.e.,:
-Never strikes extraneous characters
-Occasionally strikes extraneous characters
-Often strikes extraneous characters
and use this information in the word search.
The spell checker currently gives suggestions preferentially to words of
the same length. I would guess that the experienced typists in this
group do not have this problem. If the extraneous letter is the first
letter, WORD seldom suggests the proper word.