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Proofing
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Reply Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:15Delegate David said...
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I have two queries:-
1. In the options menu, there is an exceptions box which you cannot seem to remove. I want the options I have set for Word to apply for all my documents but this does not seem possible and I have noticed with older documents that I have to reset the dictionary choice each time to ensure the correct dictionary is used. Why is this?
2. Auto correct does not seem to pick up i as in I when I am using the first person in a document and I have to go back and correct it manually. What do I need to do?
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RE: Proofing
Hi David,
Thank you for your post, in response;
1st Query: Not quite sure what you mean by the exceptions box, (there is an Exceptions link in AutoCorrect which is the subject of the second part of your question, but this is to apply specific commands that should not be changed by AutoCorrect).
However if you want the options you have set for word to apply to all documents you must apply this command in File>Page Setup, Default. So make your changes as necessary/required to a blank document (including setting default font and size) and then select File>Page Setup make your changes there as well if necessary and then click the Default button at the foot of the dialog box, you will be warned that all changes will affect the Normal Template, if you wish this to happen click to accept. The next time you open a blank document the changes will have taken place.
Dictionary, this option/choice is embedded in the document, not in Word, so therefore as you say if you open an older document, it will look for the dictionary that it was written "with".
2nd Query: If AutoCorrect is not 'AutoCorrecting' then check out the AutoCorrect box to ensure that it has not been removed. Type a lower case i in the Replace box, the options should change and show you that a capital I will be the replaced character, if it does not, then type a capital I in the Replace with box and click OK
I hope that has sorted your problems, if so please click the resolved link, regards Pete
Reply Fri 11 Jul 2008, 15:19Delegate David said...
RE: Proofing
Thanks Peter
You have resolved the second point but not the first. The Exceptions box to which I am referring appears when you follow the path in Word: Office Button/WordOptions/Proofing. In the proofing window at the bottom, this exceptions box appears and offers you the choice of the current new document or all new documents and it is that option that I think is counter productive.
I will look forward to your further comments.
Regards
David
RE: Proofing
Hi David,
Sorry thought you were 2003,
Try this:
1. Click the Microsoft Office Button, click Word Options, select Proofing in the left pane, and then click AutoCorrect Options in the AutoCorrect Options section.
2. On the AutoCorrect tab, click to select the Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker check box.
3. Click Exceptions.
4. On the Other Corrections tab, type the word that you do not want Word to correct in the Don't correct box, and then click Add.
5. Click OK to close the AutoCorrect Exceptions dialog box.
6. Click OK to close the AutoCorrect dialog box.
Reply Fri 11 Jul 2008, 16:11Delegate David said...
RE: Proofing
Peter thanks.
I have gone through that process with no document open and the Exceptions Box was greyed out as it said no documents open. I hope it works.
I sent an email earlier - Outlook uses word as its email editor and typed a lower case "i" and it still did not correct it despite my following your earlier instructions.
Is there something else that I should do?
Regards
David
RE: Proofing
David, I'm to put it mildly 'flummoxed' I will check it out a bit more and see if I can come up with anything else that could help, but until then..... Pete
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