Speller ignores misspellings

Pat Cortez · External Since: May 05, 2006 Posts: 2

I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when spelled
checked:
Where r u going?
What do u want to du?
We will b stumped this afternoon.
R u going away?

Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and
AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been applied.
Thanks in advance. Pat

garfield-n-odie [MVP] · External Since: Feb 13, 2006 Posts: 1969

My guess is that you didn't pay the girl extra to else your why.

Pat Cortez wrote:

> I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when spelled
> checked:
> Where r u going?
> What do u want to du?
> We will b stumped this afternoon.
> R u going away?
>
> Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and
> AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been applied.
> Thanks in advance. Pat

Doug Robbins - Word MVP · External Since: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 2665

I would guess that the spell checker does no recognise the individual
letters as words so that it does not bother checking them. The exception is
the du? which is probably also ignored because of the ?.

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"Pat Cortez" <PatCortez DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6391C348-06E4-413D-A15C-C4F71E983F36@microsoft.com...
>I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when
>spelled
> checked:
> Where r u going?
> What do u want to du?
> We will b stumped this afternoon.
> R u going away?
>
> Can anyone else me why? I have checked the language, AutoCorrupt and
> AutoText for these phrases. The no proofing attribute has not been
> applied.
> Thanks in advance. Pat

Opinicus · External Since: Nov 19, 2003 Posts: 157

"Pat Cortez" <PatCortez RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

>I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when
>spelled
> checked:
> Where r u going?
> What do u want to du?
> We will b stumped this afternoon.
> R u going away?

Word doesn't recognize isolated letters as errors. I'm using Office XP (Word
2002) and it does catch "du" but not the single letters.

I just experimented with putting single letters like "b", "r", "u" on
separate lines in the exception dictionary but that doesn't result in their
being caught as errors either. > Sad

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Bob
http://www.kanyak.com

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] · External Since: Aug 26, 2006 Posts: 7

Hi,

Thanks for the question. This is in fact by design. Single letters are
always considered as correct by the spell-checker. I guess nobody would like
to see a red squiggle under letters in lists of items (a. Do this; b. Do
that...) or in sentences like "A, b and c are the first letters of the
alphabet".

Best wishes,

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]

"Opinicus" wrote:

> "Pat Cortez" <PatCortez DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> >I am on XP2 using Word 2003. The following phrases are ignored when
> >spelled
> > checked:
> > Where r u going?
> > What do u want to du?
> > We will b stumped this afternoon.
> > R u going away?
>
> Word doesn't recognize isolated letters as errors. I'm using Office XP (Word
> 2002) and it does catch "du" but not the single letters.
>
> I just experimented with putting single letters like "b", "r", "u" on
> separate lines in the exception dictionary but that doesn't result in their
> being caught as errors either. > Sad

>
> --
> Bob
> http://www.kanyak.com
>
>
>