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Word - Options - Proofing - need different options saved for different types of material
As you have noticed, you can't specify a different set of proofing options for different documents or templates.
What you can do is mark text in a document (or template) so that it won't be checked for grammar or spelling errors, which may or may not be helpful in your specific document(s).
For an overview of spellchecking in Word, see http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/MasterSpellCheck.htm.
Stefan_Blom I appreciate the suggestion, but this isn't a matter of marking text in a specific document. This is a matter of having options for a type of document. I need to be able to switch options when doing work with documents that have specific characteristics that differ from other types of documents I work with, and those characteristics have to be addressed through options to avoid the proofing/editing functions' picking up the characteristics as errors not bypassed via "ignore all." I'm coming to the conclusion that what I need to do is code macros in VBA to specifically set options. I'm not a VBA expert, but I do have the background to pick it up to do that coding. However, one should not have to be a coder to be able to create a specific set of proofing/editing options and really save them in a template where that set is unique to that template. This is a big failing on the part of Microsoft application development, where it does not consider how users who happen not to be programmers can get around slogging through options every time they need to tweak them (and it is a slog, very user unfriendly, IMHO).
At the moment, what you are asking for simply isn't possible. Selected proofing options are "global," that is, they apply to the Word application as a whole.
You can post feedback for Microsoft; see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11.
- Exactly. That "global" aspect is based on the assumption that users do not need flexibility -- ever -- in the materials they work on. That is a terrible, narrow assumption. I think the developers in Redmond too often make assumptions based on their own narrow world and don't address the real world. Sigh! Thank you for that feedback link, though. I'll put my two cents' worth in there. Much appreciated.
