Repeated words in spell check

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One curious thing I've discovered in the Word 2000 spell checker is that it
picks up repeated words even when the repeat is separated by punctuation; so
for example "That's it: it is done" is flagged as a possible error. Is
there any way of teaching the program to ignore that sort of usage?

Bert
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Bert

It still does it in 2003 too! I cannot think of any way to circumnavigate
that without killing off the spell checker.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

: One curious thing I've discovered in the Word 2000 spell checker is that
it
: picks up repeated words even when the repeat is separated by punctuation;
so
: for example "That's it: it is done" is flagged as a possible error. Is
: there any way of teaching the program to ignore that sort of usage?
:
: Bert
: http://www.bertcoules.co.uk
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:
:
 
Terry,

Thanks for the reply. It seems a minor matter, I realise, but for some
reason it really irritates me.

You'd have thought that someone somewhere along the line would have thought
of doing something about it.

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk
 
I haven't followed this whole thread, but ... my Word 2002 on XP
Pro, fully updated thru SP2/Hotfix, handles that fine. Now, the
Grammar checker finds a problem, but no spelling errors, no
repeat indicators. When I type:

1 That's it it is done


2 That’s it. It is done.



3 That’s it: It is done.



4 That's it: it is done



5 That’s it, it is done




The first line with no puncutation is caught, and the second "it"
has the red underline showing a spelling error. Click it, it has
caught the "repeated word".



NONE of the other lines are caught by checkers in any way. In
fact, clicking on the Spell Check icon in the Title Bar doesn't
find it either. It would appear to me that repeated words are
only caught one time WHEN there is no puncutation, and NOT by the
spell checker. That's news to me! I suspect this is a setting
made elsewhere in Word or Office.



I suspect there must be an Options setting or something, maybe
autotext, etc., that affects it if you guys see it happening
every time. If there is puncutation used, it shouldn't find it
anyway, and mine doesn't.

I tried it with and without the grammar checker enabled, and
it would only find the repeated word when it was typed in and
Word put the red underline on it. The grammar checker, well,
that of course didn't like those lines at all except where the
second "it" was capitalized, which is correct when it's preceded
by a colon. It still complained about "That's" though <g>; my
grammar checker is set to be strict.



Luck!



Pop
 
Pop,

Thanks for the reply. I can only confirm that on my Word 2000 installation
a phrase such as "That's it. It is done" is flagged by the spell checker as
incorporating a repeated word. I don't have the check-as-you-type facility
switched on, so I can't comment on that; and I would never use a grammar
checker: they're horrible things with no soul and no imagination.

If there is a well-buried switch somewhere to make the spell checker
recognise punctuation when it sees it, I would certainly like to know about
it.

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk
 
Bert said:
Pop,

Thanks for the reply. I can only confirm that on my Word 2000
installation a phrase such as "That's it. It is done" is
flagged by
the spell checker as incorporating a repeated word. I don't
have the
check-as-you-type facility switched on, so I can't comment on
that;
Click to expand...
== check-as-you-type makes no diff for me here. I just
recreated a new normal.dot just for grins; nothing changed.
Almost forgot to put the old one back too <g>!

Two posters, you and another, indicated 2000 and 2003 flag the
repeated word; so it doesn't make sense to me that hard code
would be different; there MUST be an explanation! You said you
had SP2, right? No idea whether it matters; just asking as a
possibility.
and I would never use a grammar checker: they're horrible
things with
no soul and no imagination.
Click to expand...
LOL, whatsa matta fo u? Don't you like being criticized? I
remember the first time I used it on a decent sized doc:
Essentially, it called me a pompous, wordy ass! Not in those
terms of course. I've been worried ever since that it might be
right! ;-]~
I do have it on though, msot of the time; I just have most of
the features turned off. It does a decent job of catching a lot
of common usage errors for me. I even go change it now and then,
momentarily, if I'm worried about tenses, things like that. I
always use too many commas and semi-colons in my writing styles.
I have three different styles I write in, and tend to mix them up
when I get rolling good.
If there is a well-buried switch somewhere to make the spell
checker
recognise punctuation when it sees it, I would certainly like
to know
about it.
Click to expand...

Me, too. Have you considered taking this to any other MS groups?
A lot of the MVPs are the same ones, but it's another avenue of
experience. I've searched quite a bit for something to impact
it, but can't find anything. My problem is, I DO think I've seen
something about catching repeated words, and I think it was
recent, but I can't find it again. Help and Support's definitely
not. When I start getting the same thing, I'd love to know how
to put it back right.

Regards,

Pop
 
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