Tony, I agree it's a good and natural function of spellcheck. But
that it works only every *other* time doesn't seem right.

p.

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:59:16 +0100, Tony Jollans wrote:

Scary, yes, but Word is actually pretty clever with this kind of construct.
It _uses_ spell checker suggestions in its own way, it doesn't just blindly
take an only one and disregard multiples.

As well as "accounta nd" it will correct "accounte nd", for example, or
"accountp eriod", or, perhaps less likely and just for fun, if you put an
extra space in "accountant" and type "accounta nt", you'll get "account
ant".

It's easy to find examples, and if you're a clumsy typist like me, it
happens a lot and I'm very glad that it does. Essentially, as I understand
it, if the previous word is marked as a spelling error that can be
'corrected' by the removal of the last letter and the addition of that
single letter to the beginning of the current misspelled word also results
in a correction, it will be assumed that the space has simply been
misplaced.


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