Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
Hi Enes. That was the first thing I did, however even when I set the default language to English Uk, it kept going back to English Us, whether I used the "automatically detect language" box or not, it was quite frustrating, but
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hi dark,The language setting for the spellchecker in word is indeed document specific. However, try this. Open a document, then check the language of the spell checker. If it is US, change it, then tab to set as default.
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@Afrim I already had language and keyboard layout set to English uk, which is why this was confusing me. I have however tried a different document, and I believe the problem might be that specific filee and indeed the text from it since
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Coming in a bit late here, and am not really able to comment on the issues at hand with Word. But I do have some thoughts on the thread.This discussion sort of draws an interesting parallel in my mind to music, since I am frankly better at
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@dark, now I tried changing the keyboard layout to English United Kingdom, and hopefully (but not surprisingly) it worked.
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@Dark, That's why you shouldn't use Spellcheck. I don't know if your keyboard layout is also English UK, and one of the reasons I don't trust spellcheck and the autocorrect feature is because Word has the habit of a
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Okay I'm running into another really frustrating issue with a spellcheck and maybe someone can give me an idea. I am in the Uk, I write Uk English, not Us English. I have my location in windows set to the Uk, I have the default lan
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@Harley B, Enes found a way to disabled the annoying thing, check posts 12 and 13 in this topic. Now the spellcheck in word is fine.What is grammarly?
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Dark wrote:I have noticed when you use spellcheck in word 2016, it has one really annoying habbit. As well as checking things like spelling and conventional grammar slips such as double spacing or using the wrong it's, it also
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I have felt it too. Sometimes it gives me error where if I correct it according to that grammar checker or spell checker it'd make my story go the another way! I have stopped using that add-on.
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I have felt it too. Sometimes it gives me error where if I correct it according to that grammer checker or spell checker it'd make my story go the another way! I have stopped using that addon.
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Dark wrote:I have noticed when you use spellcheck in word 2016, it has one really annoying habbit. As well as checking things like spelling and conventional grammar slips such as double spacing or using the wrong it's, it also
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Afrim, now I see where you are coming from with how you choose to avoid using spell-check, and I appreciate that opinions on this do vary very widely, even amongst teachers. Rigour is important and useful, but rigour must also give way to
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"Enes, sorry about that, since your in Turkey I sort of assumed that Turkish would be your first language.
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hi,At afrim, I am currently doing my BA in ELT. But what wait? Wern't you studying linguistics? I am also seriously considering further graduate study in linguistics.Dark, a minor correction. I was born and raised in the US, thou
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@Afrim, I suspect this is something we just will not agree on. hell my research assistant who has a masters in English language, can read poetry middle English and knows the derivation of most words (she's also a demon on grammar), u
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@Dark, Well, as I said, it is a little bit different as I stop whenever I am not sure whether different, for example, is written with a double F, or with a single F. Sometimes Word corrects them automatically, particularly when the
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Even sighted people always spell-check their documents, so there is no stigma around doing it because you're blind, lazy, or for any other reason.
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hi,Afrim, you should always check the whole document for spelling, eeven if it is your native language. As you are likely to still make many mistakes. Hell, I am so glad my professors didn't see the original, unedited versions
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"Tjt I agree completely, the sad thing is if Dickins had been checked for conciseness methinks his books wouldn't be half what they were."Afrim, I'm afraid I really don't see the difference here. While yo
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@Dark, I don't apply spellchecking on the whole document, I just check any word that I am not sure it is written in a way or another. That is a little bit different.
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Dark, I completely agree. This is what separates you and I from authors like Dickens who have power beyond neither you nor I to manipulate language to create masterpieces.The only justification that I can think of for Word to employ
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@Tjt, that is exactly my point. I! wanted to use the phrase "a number of" because believed it to be correct given the context of what I writing about. You would have used a different phrase, which is course as it should be sin
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Afrim, I believe that that NVDA feature used the spell-check component of Word.
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Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
I think "a number of" would have been OK there, but if I were writing about it, I would have probably not have used anything and just talked about his nightmares. I haven't read that book; I might read it.
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Hi Dark, Well, I believe some of these rules are automatically fixed by Word, particularly capitalisation and Z vs. S, first sound related to American English and second to British English. A change in these sounds you may notice when
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I think
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Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
@Enes, You are exactly right. Having written and read papers on ethics for years, I am used to the different nuances implicit in sentence structure, for example as I said above saying two things are "the same" is not fu
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hi,Ok I checked this setting. Dark, when you reach proofing, tab to the writing style. If you have the grammar/more option, you can tab to the settings button and check and uncheck what things should be corrected. From the settings there
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hi,Dark, I agree with you 100%. When writing academic papers, it is sometimes necesary to use many words. I also find the problem you're facing in word. I just ignore each time. However, you might go to file/options and under the pro
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Dark, a more expanded version of a similar thing to what you wrote in post 9 is here: http://webaim.org/techniques/writing/ I like it because it goes beyond the grammar to actually how to make articles more interesting and
Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
Dark, a more expanded version of a similar thing to what you wrote in post 9 is here: http://webaim.org/techniques/writing/ I like it because it goes beyond the grammar to actually how to make articles more interesting and
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Rules for Writers-1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.5. Avoid cl
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I always have trouble with IPHone for some odd reason, along with the word just jsut because my brain is a lot faster than my fingers, and once upon a time I went to the run dialogue intending to type downloads and ended up with d[wm;pads
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It's also worth noting that, when one types quickly, it's easy to think one typed something other than what actually appeared. It's dreadfully difficult to avoid occasionally mistyping "the" as "hte", or
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@Afrim, firstly, what about typos? Really as Cae and Nocturnus both said just because a person is a native speaker does not mean they don't need a spell check, especially I might say when using a screen reader and being liable to do t
Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
@Afrim, firstly, what about typos? Really as Cae and Nocturnus both said just because a person is a native speaker does not mean they don't need a spell check, especially I might say when using a screen reader and being liable to do t
Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
Suggesting that just because a person is great with a language they cannot misspell a word is like suggesting that a cook need never check a recipe book.
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Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
Well, I guess you are aware of what you write, so that, for example, you won't mistake peace for piece. I am certainly talking about documents that you write, not documents written by others.
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Re: How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
Perhaps, but checking all but the most grievous spelling errors via screen reader is highly unreliable. I'm not sure how many people have the patience to read a document character by character, never mind the attention span to notice
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Hi Dark, Since you are a native speaker of English, I don't know really why would you need the spellcheck provided that you own the four features of language; reading, writing, listening, and speaking. I am not a native English sp
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Hi Dark, Since you are a native speaker of English, I don't know really why would you need the spellcheck provided that you own
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How do I stop Ms word rewriting my documents?
I have noticed when you use spellcheck in word 2016, it has one really annoying habbit. As well as checking things like and conventional grammar slips such as double spacing or using the wrong it's, it also keeps irritating me by flaggi
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