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Built-in Spellcheck Problem
My document is definitely in English (United Kingdom), the in-built dictionary / language. I have the word "forcussed" accidentally in my text, but the word isn't underlined. I manually select for Spellcheck to run through all the mistakes in the document and it picks up many others, but not "forcussed" (should be "focussed"). This is frustratingly shaking my confidence that it's doing spell check correctly on the other 10,000 words... I do a Smart Lookup on "forcuessed" and it returns the word "focus", and other results re: "focus".
How can I troubleshoot this further, and resolve it? |
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The UK English spell check definitely picks up this word. Are you sure that you haven't inadvertently added it to your personal dictionary?
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I thought there was a setting somewhere that auto-corrected swapped letters, but I might be mistaken; and it's not working in any case But with or without that swapped-letter setting, shouldn't Word pick these up anyways? With the swapped letter, they still aren't real words... |
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The feature that fixes typos is called AutoCorrect. It does other things as well. It only picks up typos that are in its list, though. See:
Do you have line numbering turned on? Click in one of the obviously misspelled Words that is not flagged. Under the Review tab, check the proofing language. Is it correct? Do you have "do not check spelling or grammar" checked for that word? |
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Swapped letter correction is handled via autocorrect feature; there must be an entry for that specific misspelling--it doesn't look like the default Word autocorrect list has any of the ones you listed. If those are typos you commit often, you can add to the autocorrect list (File>Options>Proofing>AutoCorrect Options) |
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As Charles hinted, the problem had to do with the "do not check spelling and grammar" setting. It was UNSELECTED, which implies it should be checking. Nonetheless, I changed the language from English (UK) to English (Canada), closed the dialogue and it was checking spelling! Then I went back into the dialogue and noticed the checkbox was SELECTED -- this didn't make any sense... I switched back to English (UK), Selected and unselected the dialogue box, and did all this a few more times and it settled back into a correctly working system. So I can only partially explain what happened there, unfortunately; but it's working for me, fortunately. |
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MVP Bob Buckland said it well years ago.
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