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aalaan
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:44 am    Post subject: Odd spelling effect
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Hi All

Word 2000, today's puzzle: When I edit a document that contains eg foreign
names, I frequently 'ignore' rather than 'add', so the custom dictionary
doesn't get changed. But when I've passed through the document once, it
seems that *sometimes* on the next F7 the system 'knows' I've ignored the
given words and now doesn't find them. That's not too puzzling, but there's
more! If I close down the whole lot, on opening up the next morning it
seems as though Word still 'knows' these ignored words. In other words
(pardon the unintentional pun) Word seems to have saved somewhere with the
document a list of ignored words. They are not in the custom.dic, so where
are these held, how can I get rid of them, or is there another explanation?
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Cindy M -WordMVP-
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Odd spelling effect [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> Word 2000, today's puzzle: When I edit a document that contains eg foreign
> names, I frequently 'ignore' rather than 'add', so the custom dictionary
> doesn't get changed. But when I've passed through the document once, it
> seems that *sometimes* on the next F7 the system 'knows' I've ignored the
> given words and now doesn't find them. That's not too puzzling, but there's
> more! If I close down the whole lot, on opening up the next morning it
> seems as though Word still 'knows' these ignored words. In other words
> (pardon the unintentional pun) Word seems to have saved somewhere with the
> document a list of ignored words. They are not in the custom.dic, so where
> are these held, how can I get rid of them, or is there another explanation?
>
Yes, Word stores them in the document Smile

To get rid of them, you need to RECHECK the entire document. This button is in
Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar

Cindy Meister
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http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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aalaan
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:09 am    Post subject: Re: Odd spelling effect [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C.DeleteThis@hispeed.ch> wrote in message
news:VA.0000c17e.004b39df@speedy...
>> Word 2000, today's puzzle: When I edit a document that contains eg
>> foreign
>> names, I frequently 'ignore' rather than 'add', so the custom dictionary
>> doesn't get changed. But when I've passed through the document once, it
>> seems that *sometimes* on the next F7 the system 'knows' I've ignored the
>> given words and now doesn't find them. That's not too puzzling, but
>> there's
>> more! If I close down the whole lot, on opening up the next morning it
>> seems as though Word still 'knows' these ignored words. In other words
>> (pardon the unintentional pun) Word seems to have saved somewhere with
>> the
>> document a list of ignored words. They are not in the custom.dic, so
>> where
>> are these held, how can I get rid of them, or is there another
>> explanation?
>>
> Yes, Word stores them in the document Smile
>
> To get rid of them, you need to RECHECK the entire document. This button
> is in
> Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar
>
> Cindy Meister

Brilliant! I'll try it out.
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aalaan
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:42 am    Post subject: Re: Odd spelling effect [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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<aalaan RemoveThis @tpg.com.au> wrote in message news:44b94b86@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>
> "Cindy M -WordMVP-" <C.Meister-C RemoveThis @hispeed.ch> wrote in message
> news:VA.0000c17e.004b39df@speedy...
>>> Word 2000, today's puzzle: When I edit a document that contains eg
>>> foreign
>>> names, I frequently 'ignore' rather than 'add', so the custom dictionary
>>> doesn't get changed. But when I've passed through the document once, it
>>> seems that *sometimes* on the next F7 the system 'knows' I've ignored
>>> the
>>> given words and now doesn't find them. That's not too puzzling, but
>>> there's
>>> more! If I close down the whole lot, on opening up the next morning it
>>> seems as though Word still 'knows' these ignored words. In other words
>>> (pardon the unintentional pun) Word seems to have saved somewhere with
>>> the
>>> document a list of ignored words. They are not in the custom.dic, so
>>> where
>>> are these held, how can I get rid of them, or is there another
>>> explanation?
>>>
>> Yes, Word stores them in the document Smile
>>
>> To get rid of them, you need to RECHECK the entire document. This button
>> is in
>> Tools/Options/Spelling and Grammar
>>
>> Cindy Meister
>
> Brilliant! I'll try it out.

Of course it worked! The only chnage: On Word 2000 the button is actually
CHECK rathre than RECHECK.

This of course explains the question oft seen here: Why does my document
*sometimes* want to save on exit when I haven't changed anything? Answer:
if you have 'ignored' any spell suggestions it needs to save the
ignorements(!) with the document. This group has saved my sanity many times
over.
>
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