Maybe I'm making it up? (I've been known to imagine such things.) And
perhaps I've just noticed it on single instances, as you describe (wrt auto
correction of quotes and the like).

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"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
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I can't say I've ever observed that behaviour.

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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On the contrary, Word sometimes takes the hint and figures if you didn't
want it corrected the first time then maybe that's what you meant, and so
it will leave it alone thenceforward (at least for that document or Word
session).

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"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
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That is normal behaviour. If you change it back to what it was before a
correction, Word assumes that you didn't want the correction that time.
If you type it again somewhere else, Word treats that independently and
corrects it.

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"Paul B" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:27:25 +0100, Tony Jollans wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean, Paul. Can you give me an example of a
string of
text that you type, and what the end result is for you?

From memory: If I type "accounta nd", the first time Word will
correct it via spell check to "account and". Then if I change it
back to "accounta nd", now Word will leave it alone as a spelling
error.

This every-other-time behavior was repeatable.

p.
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