Word Woes
Really, I don't know how folks avoid complete frustration when using Microsoft software. I just turned in my speaker's notes for Flash Forward, and thankfully shut down Word.
I'm wondering if anyone out there knows how to accomplish this in Word: highlight a block of text and turn off spell-check for that block, but leaving spell-check on for the rest of the document. Why? So the program will stop marking and re-marking my code snippets with what it "thinks" are spelling and grammar errors.
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Warning: this advice is from a Word layman! :) Highlight your new phrase and the spell-check icon appears (rec/with a check) .. click it and press 'add' .. it adds previously unused words (auto-highlighted) one new word for each 'add' click to either the default:main or custom dictionary (depending which one you're using (tools\options\spelling and grammer tab). Added words will now be available as valid everytime you use them in Word.
Posted by: Richard | February 5, 2004 04:36 PM
You need to create a new style: format > styles and formatting. Click the New Style button and then the Format button in the pop-up. Select Language from the list and you should see a checkbox marked 'Do not check spelling and grammar'. Apply the new style to your paragraph.
I only found this out because somebody had done this to the normal default style and I wondered why spell check wasn't working.
Posted by: adrian | February 5, 2004 05:35 PM
Thanks! Those are both great strategies.
Posted by: Kristin | February 6, 2004 09:23 AM