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Send a custom dictionary with a document???
Hi,
I've got a really wierd question. My company sends a lot of documents back and forth with the government (and we all know how much the government likes to invent new words). The problem is that my boss is worried about the red squiggly spelling error marks showing up when the customer opens the documents (even though the errors are for their made-up words). It seems as though if you go through the whole spellchecker just before you send the document then it is fine -- for a while (just until the recipient starts poking around in it). The question is if there is any way to keep spelling "errors" in our documents from showing up on other people's machines (which we cannot control)? Can a custom dictionary be attached to a Word document as a sort of meta file? Thanks! Rachel |
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There's an easier approach. On the Spelling and Grammar tab of Tools |
Options, check the box for "Hide spelling errors in this document." This is a per-document setting that prevents spelling errors from being displayed regardless of the "Check spelling as you type" settings of the user looking at it. The spelling checker can still be run manually, but there will be no wavy underlines. If you want Word to ignore the spelling errors entirely (so that they won't turn up even when the spelling checker is run explicitly), select the entire document, go to Tools | Language | Set Language and check the box for "Do not check spelling or grammar." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rachel" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a really wierd question. My company sends a lot of documents back and forth with the government (and we all know how much the government likes to invent new words). The problem is that my boss is worried about the red squiggly spelling error marks showing up when the customer opens the documents (even though the errors are for their made-up words). It seems as though if you go through the whole spellchecker just before you send the document then it is fine -- for a while (just until the recipient starts poking around in it). The question is if there is any way to keep spelling "errors" in our documents from showing up on other people's machines (which we cannot control)? Can a custom dictionary be attached to a Word document as a sort of meta file? Thanks! Rachel |
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Hi Rachel
Rachel wrote: The question is if there is any way to keep spelling "errors" in our documents from showing up on other people's machines (which we cannot control)? Can a custom dictionary be attached to a Word document as a sort of meta file? To add to Suzanne's last paragraph: You can do that (set to not check spelling and grammar) for single Words, too! Yet another method would be to tell the customer to add their own word-inventions (or acronyms, whatever) to their dictionary, that would help them in their other documents as well. Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Thanks!! For some reason the option for hiding spelling
errors is greyed out for me (I think the Office install on this machine is bad) but I was able to use the set language option. Rach -----Original Message----- There's an easier approach. On the Spelling and Grammar tab of Tools | Options, check the box for "Hide spelling errors in this document." This is a per-document setting that prevents spelling errors from being displayed regardless of the "Check spelling as you type" settings of the user looking at it. The spelling checker can still be run manually, but there will be no wavy underlines. If you want Word to ignore the spelling errors entirely (so that they won't turn up even when the spelling checker is run explicitly), select the entire document, go to Tools | Language | Set Language and check the box for "Do not check spelling or grammar." -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Rachel" wrote in message ... Hi, I've got a really wierd question. My company sends a lot of documents back and forth with the government (and we all know how much the government likes to invent new words). The problem is that my boss is worried about the red squiggly spelling error marks showing up when the customer opens the documents (even though the errors are for their made-up words). It seems as though if you go through the whole spellchecker just before you send the document then it is fine -- for a while (just until the recipient starts poking around in it). The question is if there is any way to keep spelling "errors" in our documents from showing up on other people's machines (which we cannot control)? Can a custom dictionary be attached to a Word document as a sort of meta file? Thanks! Rachel . |
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