On or near 7/26/01 7:50 AM, Dan Frakes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> I love the spell checker in Entourage, but there are a few quirks that bug
> me sometimes. Pretty minor issues, really, but I thought I'd throw them out
> there.
>
> 1) I wish that there was a setting to toggle on/off the spell-checking of
> quoted material. I don't care if what someone wrote to me is spelled
> correctly or not ;) Plus, even if I did, most of the time I don't feel it's
> proper to "correct" someone else's work.
I generally just watch the red squiggles as I type, and correct my own
writing; I ignore red squiggles in quoted matter. If I want to batch
spell-check, I select the part I want to check before invoking the command.
Of course that does not work well when (as with this message) my typing is
interspersed with the quoted material. In practice, though, I almost never
batch spell check. (In General Preferences, Spelling, check "Check spelling
as you type.")
>
> 2) I wish there was a way to edit "grammar rules." For example, when you
> type ellipses (...), Entourage automatically capitalizes the next work
> (since it came after a "period"). However, this isn't necessarily the best
> grammar.
>
I'm sure you know that if you use Cmd-Z right after Entourage capitalizes
some word you don't want capitalized, it will uncap it. That depends on
being a slow, deliberate typist, pausing at just the right moment, because
if you continue to type, you lose that undo ability. My choice has been to
turn off capitalize first word of sentence entirely (Tools, Autocorrect). I
find I fail to capitalize a sentence much less often than Entourage
capitalizes things I don't want capitalized.
> 3) Many times when I "add" a word, Entourage doesn't remember it -- the next
> time that word is encountered in another message, it claims it's misspelled.
>
I have not seen that.
> Just a few .02's
>
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