That suggests that perhaps the conversion is resulting from having
"Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker" checked in Tools |
AutoCorrect Options. That, however, would assume that "email" is marked as
an incorrect spelling and that "e-mail" is the only suggested correction.
But "email" is NOT marked as incorrect in Word 2003 (it may be in some
earlier versions); I checked, and I don't have "email" in my custom
dictionary, so it must be in the built in lexicon.
All of which raises additional questions because I believe that the
"Automatically use suggestions..." option is a relatively new one, and I
would have thought that any version recent enough to have this option would
also have "email" in the lexicon. It could well be that "email" could have
been added to an exclusion dictionary to force the use of "e-mail," but that
theory may also fall down because if no (or multiple) spelling suggestions
are offered for words added to the exclusion dictionary. I tested with three
of my entries: "pubic," "abut," and "acknowledgement," with the following
results:
pubic: no suggestions (I would have hoped for "public")
abut: abuts, about, abet ("about" is what is meant)
acknowledgement: acknowledgements (guess I'd better add that one, too!)
So it's not impossible that this might be the result of having
"Automatically use suggestions" enabled and "email" in the exclusion
dictionary.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Hello Suzanne, peter,
You are right that nothing exists in any version of word so far i come
across. The funny thing which i found is that if you type email and do
spell check it suggest it to change to mail BUT if you type e-mail ,
it treats as the correct spelling. In help of word, everywhere they
write e-mail and not email.
Just wanted to share this with you.
Naren