Spellcheck : how to add words-with-hyphens

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I regularly use a lot of hyphenated, translated foreign words- e.g.,
Chun-lin-non-pho
Spell-check will, in the case of the example, underline everything except
"non" in red, and I would need to select each separate element to add to the
dictionary. This obviously is not a good idea if I later mis-spell lin for
line, and the dictionary thinks it's correct.
Is there any way to add these complete hyphenated names directly to the
dictionary?
 
My spellcheck (macword 2001, US English) flags chun-non-lin-pho as all one
wrong word, and presumably would let me add it as such. Is yours stopping
sequentially on chun, then lin, then pho? If so, check under Tools |
Options, Spelling and Grammar to see if any of the settings there might
affect the behavior you get. Perhaps "use German post-reform rules"?

A sideways approach to this might be to tell Spellcheck not to check these
words, by setting them to no language/no proofing/do not check spelling.
Probably the most straightforward, but a little troublesome, way to do this
would be to define a Character Style as Default Font + No Proofing, and
apply it to the words after you type them. If you italicize these words,
you could include italics in the style and do all that in one step.

If you regularly use the same words, conceivably creating AutoCorrect or
AutoText entries for them might work, saving you the trouble of
retroactively formatting the words.

DM
 
Hi Benny,
I regularly use a lot of hyphenated, translated foreign words- e.g.,
Chun-lin-non-pho
Spell-check will, in the case of the example, underline everything except
"non" in red, and I would need to select each separate element to add to the
dictionary. This obviously is not a good idea if I later mis-spell lin for
line, and the dictionary thinks it's correct.
Is there any way to add these complete hyphenated names directly to the
dictionary?
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No, unfortunately, hyphenated terms are not supported by the proofing tools
Word uses.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Its kind of spooky. Since I posted this query (below), Word 2003 has begun
adding my multiple hyphenated words to the dictionary, at least when each
separate element is not in the dictionary already.
 
Hi Benny,
Its kind of spooky. Since I posted this query (below), Word 2003 has begun
adding my multiple hyphenated words to the dictionary, at least when each
separate element is not in the dictionary already.
Click to expand...
I'm glad you got it working, and have proven me wrong :-) I must have
misunderstood something Doug Potter [MSFT] said in the spelling.grammar
newsgroup.

Cindy Meister
 
I also would have thought you couldn't add hyphenated words, but I suspect
the secret is in the words "when each separate element is not in the
dictionary already."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Cindy M -WordMVP- said:
Hi Benny,
Its kind of spooky. Since I posted this query (below), Word 2003 has begun
adding my multiple hyphenated words to the dictionary, at least when each
separate element is not in the dictionary already.
Click to expand...
I'm glad you got it working, and have proven me wrong :-) I must have
misunderstood something Doug Potter [MSFT] said in the spelling.grammar
newsgroup.

Cindy Meister
Click to expand...
 
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