Spell checking issue

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I had a presentation that had two words
Effectiveness and Effeciency. Effeciency is spelled incorrectly but the
spell checker did not pick up the miss-spelling. I tried the same word in MS
Word and it showed that it was not spelled correctly, in other words Word
worked as it should Effeciency is spelled Efficiency. I am not sure if
Powerpoint uses the same dictionary as Word or a different one.

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GRSA,
Hmm, that is strange, effeciency is picked up here, PPT 2003.
And you are sure you did not inadvertently add effeciency to your custom
dictionary in Word?
Luc Sanders
MVP - PowerPoint
 
I had a presentation that had two words
Effectiveness and Effeciency. Effeciency is spelled incorrectly but the
spell checker did not pick up the miss-spelling. I tried the same word in MS
Word and it showed that it was not spelled correctly, in other words Word
worked as it should Effeciency is spelled Efficiency. I am not sure if
Powerpoint uses the same dictionary as Word or a different one.
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They should use the same dictionary but

- If there's a check next to "Hide all spelling errors" in Tools, Options, Spelling & Style tab, then no spelling
errors will be squiggle-underlined (pardon the techtalk)

- If the text is part of an imported or pasted picture, PPT won't see it until you ungroup the graphic, and
perhaps not even then, depending on the nature of the picture.
 
Just worth noting--if the word was in all caps, might not have picked up the
spelling error. There's a setting in the spellcheck to skip all capitalized
that's enabled by default.
 
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