Why, for the love of og, does Office consistanty ignore my ‘Ignore all’ request while spell checking? I send emails all the time with job logs and coding, and when I press ‘Ignore all’, for fuck sakes, I mean it! Instead, it still goes on to the next word and tells me that it is spelled incorrectly. No shit! I already told you to ignore everything, but you’re still checking! WTF?
I would have spell checked this post, but I’m too pist to even use it anymore.
And yes, I realize the feature is for ignoring the same instance of that word throughout the document, but it shouldn’t be that way!
If you want spellchecker to really “ignore all”, why not turn it off?
Because I do want it to find actual errors that I make. But when I say Ignore all, it should ignore the rest of the document.
Isn’t there a cancel button?
I don’t think Ignore All does what you think it does. If the spellchecker stops on “qewhbd”, for example, hitting Ignore All will cause it to ignore all other instances of “qewhbd” in the document. It’ll still stop on “plrgna”. If it’s catching multiple instances of the same word after you hit Ignore All, though…well, that’s just messed up, and I wouldn’t know what to tell you.
Read post #3.
So you want it to find errors, except the errors that you made on purpose and don’t want it to find?
Come on Bill Gates, how hard can it be to incorporate some basic mind reading software into the spellchecker?? :mad:
Why not at the acronyms to the dictionary?
Yeah yeah, I’m being irrational. Sue me.
(yeah) repeated word
Oops. Sorry. :o
I’m on a roll for doing that today…maybe I need to start getting more sleep.
This is all because Word is the most co-dependent of all word-processing programs.
I just want to heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp! Pleeeeeeeeeeeze let me help you! Because you’re cleeeeeeeeeeeeeearly an iiiiiiidiot! And without me all is lost!!
(Don’t get me started on Word insisting on making a paragraph a list. Unless you want it to be a list, then it assumes that you couldn’t possibly want to make a list… Because it only wants you to be happy!)
Now, can someone tell me how to get the spellcheck up and running?
This is not a joke.
I’ve enabled it, put in all the rights settings, but when I order it to spellcheck, it says that the whole document has been checked. Even when I put in an error, like eror, it doesn’t tell me that it’s wrong.
Gah.
Do you have the language of the document set in a language that it “understands”?
All my fax coversheets have “errors” on them because the document is set to French, and I can’t get it to stop!
Mon dieu!
Why is this so hard to understand? At least, assuming I’m understanding it right…
He’s talking (I’m guessing) about the myriad of words that the spell check won’t recognize…like, in my case, the paper I worked for, or my last name…which, if used several times in a document, you might not want to keep reinforming the spellcheck, that, yes, that really is the word you meant.
Which is what Ignore All is for, isn’t it? But I have to say, I’ve never seen it work either. WTF?
Shouldn’t there be (or is there and I just don’t know about it) a way to add to your own spellcheck dictionary, so I’ll never be asked to “correct” my last name again?
[QUOTE=betenoirShouldn’t there be (or is there and I just don’t know about it) a way to add to your own spellcheck dictionary, so I’ll never be asked to “correct” my last name again?[/QUOTE]
There is. One of the buttons is “add to dictionary”. Add a word and you’ll never get snagged again. On mine, I’ve added things I use all the time like “txdot”, “rebar”, “prestressed”, “howdy”, and “y’all”. It’s a real handy feature…
What I hate is when it claims a word with an ‘apostrophe S’ in it is meant to be recognised as a whole new word, when clearly it’s a dictionary word with a possessive on it!
PA: When you get to the point in the document at which you want it to cease checking the spelling, click the Close button instead of the Ignore All button.