Spellchecker did not catch "prosedure."

[Guest]

Why would the spellchecker miss this obvious error? I checked if it was in
my custom dictionary, and it's not.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Select just the word and go to Tools | Language | Set Language to make sure
that it is not formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar."
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
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[Guest]

I tried your suggestion; however, "Do not check spelling or grammar." was not
checked.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TG9pcw==?=,

With the word still selected, go back to this dialog box. What LANGUAGE is
selected?

I tried your suggestion; however, "Do not check spelling or grammar." was not

Why would the spellchecker miss this obvious error? I checked if it was in
my custom dictionary, and it's not.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

English U.S.

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TG9pcw==?=,

With the word still selected, go back to this dialog box. What LANGUAGE is
selected?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TG9pcw==?=,

English U.S.

OK, then we're coming around full circle... If the language is correct, and the
rest of us see that Word does recognize the term "prosedure" as an error, then one
more test:

1. Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar.

2. Click the "Recheck Document" button (or similar if you're not using Word 2003).
Click "Yes", the "OK".

3. Press F7 to force a full spell-check. Does it pick up the term?

If not, go back to Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar and click on "Custom
Dictionaries". Is more than one listed? If yes, check in the one(s) you didn't
look in, before.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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[Guest]

Sorry, Cindy, but neither suggestion panned out. When I reset Spellchecker,
it still missed "prosedure." I checked my custom dictionary and "prosedure"
is not in the list of words. I'm wondering if my Spellchecker is corrupted.
Anyone know how to reinstall it? I've also noticed that the grammar check
misses errors, too, and my previous version of Word (2000) would have caught
these.

 

[Guest]

Here's the answer! The spellchecker was set to ignore words in upppercase,
and PROSEDURE was in all caps. When I typed "prosedure," it was caught as an
error, but PROSEDURE was not identified until I unchecked "Ignore words in
UPPERCASE" in Spelling and Grammer in the Options menu. Mystery solved!

Thanks to all who helped out with this.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Lois,

Here's the answer! The spellchecker was set to ignore words in upppercase,
and PROSEDURE was in all caps. When I typed "prosedure," it was caught as an
error, but PROSEDURE was not identified until I unchecked "Ignore words in
UPPERCASE" in Spelling and Grammer in the Options menu. Mystery solved!

<whew>Glad you tracked it down. It's always important to show EXACTLY what was
used. If we'd seen all caps, someone probably would have twigged much earlier


Cindy Meister