I know this is a basic question, but I do appreciate your patiet answer.
All through my system whether I am in Outlook, Word or Access, every time I type IHS, Microsoft respells it as HIS.
There is a company named IHS in my contact database and I don't want the auto-spelling to occur. How and where is this option/property set?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Jack,
You've got two choices here.
The most obvious is to turn off the spell check rule that looks for obviously
transposed typing. As you noted, "IHS" looks like a transposition of "HIS".
Turning off checking for transpositions, IMHO, would be a bad move, for me,
anyway. I haven't been able to find the transposition rule setting anyway.
Your best choice, AFAICT, would be for you to add "IHS" to your custom
dictionary. In Word 2002, for instance, this would be Tools - Options -
Spelling & Grammar - Custom Dictionaries - Modify. You can manually add a word
this way. YMMV depending upon what application (and version) you're running.
Some applications also let you Add a custom spelling rule on-the-fly. When a
spelling error is detected, and the possible fix is suggested, the choices are
"Yes" (Change this according to your spelling rules), "No" (Don't change this, I
know what I'm typing), and "Add" (Don't change this, and add this spelling to
your list of custom spelling rules).
BTW, please learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit
safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
