Spell Check

Shawna · External Since: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 27

I did research and did not find this question anywhere.

Example phrase: American Certified Public Accountants

In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally. Now, of
course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word because
it IS a word.

How would I get Word to check specific PHRASES? Is this possible?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Shawna

Jay Freedman · External Since: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 2317

Shawna wrote:
> I did research and did not find this question anywhere.
>
> Example phrase: American Certified Public Accountants
>
> In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally. Now, of
> course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word
> because it IS a word.
>
> How would I get Word to check specific PHRASES? Is this possible?
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Shawna

There isn't any way to make Word check phrases automatically. However,
assuming you don't write medical text and would want Word to alert you
whenever it finds "pubic" in your documents, add that word to an exclusion
dictionary. Instructions are at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.

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Jay Freedman
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Jay Freedman · External Since: Mar 17, 2004 Posts: 2955

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:43:31 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
<jay.freedman.DeleteThis@verizon.net> wrote:

>Shawna wrote:
>> I did research and did not find this question anywhere.
>>
>> Example phrase: American Certified Public Accountants
>>
>> In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally. Now, of
>> course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word
>> because it IS a word.
>>
>> How would I get Word to check specific PHRASES? Is this possible?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>>
>> Shawna
>
>There isn't any way to make Word check phrases automatically. However,
>assuming you don't write medical text and would want Word to alert you
>whenever it finds "pubic" in your documents, add that word to an exclusion
>dictionary. Instructions are at
>http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.

An afterthought, but maybe useful:

Whenever you have a long phrase that you type repeatedly, store it
(after double-checking its spelling) as an AutoCorrect or AutoText
entry. For example, the phrase "American Certified Public Accountants"
could be assigned as the value of an AutoCorrect entry named "acpa".
That would banish the typo permanently.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Shawna · External Since: Feb 18, 2005 Posts: 27

I appreciate your help. The only problem with that is everyone would have to
do that (office of 50 ppl). Also this particular document I was working on
was copied and rolled over from a previous year. So was not typed. I do use
the autocorrect often though. I though of that. Smile

Again, I appreciate all of your help. Thank you!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:43:31 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
> <jay.freedman.TakeThisOut@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >Shawna wrote:
> >> I did research and did not find this question anywhere.
> >>
> >> Example phrase: American Certified Public Accountants
> >>
> >> In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally. Now, of
> >> course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word
> >> because it IS a word.
> >>
> >> How would I get Word to check specific PHRASES? Is this possible?
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
> >>
> >> Shawna
> >
> >There isn't any way to make Word check phrases automatically. However,
> >assuming you don't write medical text and would want Word to alert you
> >whenever it finds "pubic" in your documents, add that word to an exclusion
> >dictionary. Instructions are at
> >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.
>
> An afterthought, but maybe useful:
>
> Whenever you have a long phrase that you type repeatedly, store it
> (after double-checking its spelling) as an AutoCorrect or AutoText
> entry. For example, the phrase "American Certified Public Accountants"
> could be assigned as the value of an AutoCorrect entry named "acpa".
> That would banish the typo permanently.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>

Doug Potter [MSFT] · External Since: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 13

Phrase checking is one of those things we'd like to do, but because it is so
difficult, have not been able to make it reliable enough. We're still
working on it.

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"Shawna" <Shawna RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:613A1F69-2F19-4483-84B6-34BD5DC72AC2@microsoft.com...
>I appreciate your help. The only problem with that is everyone would have
>to
> do that (office of 50 ppl). Also this particular document I was working
> on
> was copied and rolled over from a previous year. So was not typed. I do
> use
> the autocorrect often though. I though of that. Smile

>
> Again, I appreciate all of your help. Thank you!
>
> "Jay Freedman" wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:43:31 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
>> <jay.freedman RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Shawna wrote:
>> >> I did research and did not find this question anywhere.
>> >>
>> >> Example phrase: American Certified Public Accountants
>> >>
>> >> In an instance, the "L" in "Public" was omitted accidentally. Now, of
>> >> course, Word would not consider that word "Pubic" as a mispelled word
>> >> because it IS a word.
>> >>
>> >> How would I get Word to check specific PHRASES? Is this possible?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> Shawna
>> >
>> >There isn't any way to make Word check phrases automatically. However,
>> >assuming you don't write medical text and would want Word to alert you
>> >whenever it finds "pubic" in your documents, add that word to an
>> >exclusion
>> >dictionary. Instructions are at
>> >http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.
>>
>> An afterthought, but maybe useful:
>>
>> Whenever you have a long phrase that you type repeatedly, store it
>> (after double-checking its spelling) as an AutoCorrect or AutoText
>> entry. For example, the phrase "American Certified Public Accountants"
>> could be assigned as the value of an AutoCorrect entry named "acpa".
>> That would banish the typo permanently.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>>