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Remember my "ignore once" decision.
I'm telling Word to ignore a false positive spelling check, but as soon as I make any changes to the sentence, or even right after the sentence (First word after period), Word then re-marks the false positive and I have to tell it again to "ignore once".
"... ähnlich einer Mischung aus Pilz und Portugiesischer Galeere zu einer Kolonie zusammenschlossen."
"Portugiesischer" is marked with a blue squiggly line as Word thinks it may be an adjective and should be written with a small p. However, "Portugiesische Galeere" is the name of a species (Portuguese man o' war), thus "portugiesisch" is part of its name and not an adjective, which is why it must be written with a capital P as Substantives in German are written with capital letters.
Word seems to be aware this is definitely not a spelling mistake but may be a grammar mistake and the capital P may in fact be correct, hence it isn't marking it red as it otherwise would.
However, it's just this word, whose grammar doesn't change with changes in the sentence, it remains the species name, so can Word please not constantly remark it when I make changes to the sentece?
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Hi Kevin,
Word has a formatting feature you can use to tell it to never check the spelling or grammar for selected text, not only on your computer but on any computer. It is hidden in the Proofing Language dialog.
See my Article: Create a "No-Proofing" style in Word.
See also Mastering the Spelling Checker by Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill.
This is a user-to-user support forum and not a place to tell Microsoft to change something.
- Hello Charles,
This is interesting and I haven't thought about creating a text format to disable spelling. However, in your example you base the format on "body text", which I assume only makes it eligible for just that text style. I did a quick test, which confirmed my suspicions, it removes font style (italic/bold/underlined) and sets font colour back to "automatic", and while the dialog leaves the option to keep the font type and size empty so it takes over whatever type and size the font has, I can't see such option for font style or colour. Thus, I cannot use this on, say, a headline, which uses a green font colour or on a weak emphasis, which uses italic style and a grey colour, unless I create a "no proofing" format for every existing format, which changes these font attributes.
Or is there an option to create a text format, which leaves absolutely every setting as is and only sets the no proofing?Hi Kevin,
The macro in the article will leave alone any font formatting that is based on the paragraph style. This is standard behavior for character styles.
So, I use the Title style or the Heading 1 style for my text. Then apply the character style for no-proofing and nothing changes.
If you have not been using styles to control your formatting, especially in important documents, you are shooting yourself in the foot, making your life harder.
