MS SpellCheck errors!

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leviathanleviathan
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
just to let everyone know that on various Microsoft programs, the spell check function ceases to work



upon writing up varying degrees of documents i have come to notice that Microsoft fails to spot even the simplist errors that a 3-year old child could even rectify <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



it appears that the simplist of words, Colour for example, are unnecessarily changed - people beware!



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  • Reply 1 of 9
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    General Discussion is for "Tech industry tomfoolery" and so I am moving this over there.



    Welcome to AI BTW
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  • Reply 2 of 9
    leviathanleviathan Posts: 161member
    [quote]Originally posted by Jamie:

    <strong>General Discussion is for "Tech industry tomfoolery" and so I am moving this over there.



    Welcome to AI BTW </strong><hr></blockquote>



    thanks jamie, me scottish pal - this seems like a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeallly nice place, ashame there are no highland views



    :eek:
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  • Reply 3 of 9
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are writing, But if that problem is that it is changing "colour" to "color" perhaps it is because you have a version that is not your language? In the U.S, we have an aversion to excess vowels, so we ditched the U.



    Then again, maybe I'm on crack and don't understand you. It wouldn't be the first time.



    [ 07-01-2002: Message edited by: Stroszek ]</p>
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  • Reply 4 of 9
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Maybe the MS spell check is bad, but the spelling dictionary built into OS X is worse. It doesn't ever change words from the correct spelling to the incorrect spelling, but it's very incomplete. For example, it doesn't have the word "nerd" in it. It doesn't even have some of Apple's own products in it, such as iPod. I have to hit the "learn" button very often. It also doesn't automatically start with the word you have selected.
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  • Reply 5 of 9
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    I would suspect that:

    1. there is no sense in having an unabrigded dictionary in there



    2. they started with words that are less slang that "nerd", and that's why it's not in there. english is a big language, and when you are building a dictionary, you start with words like it, the, street, and glass.



    3. the dictionary was built from another one, thus the absence of iPod.



    Not that I know anything about writing dictionaries, these are just my suspicions.



    [ 07-01-2002: Message edited by: Stroszek ]</p>
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  • Reply 6 of 9
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I agree with you on the first two points. It's supposed to be a rudimentary dictionary that pretty much just tells you if you spell a typical word wrong (like "miscellaneous"). Do note, however, that iMac and iBook are not caught by the spell checker, and that's why I suspected iPod may be in the dictionary as well. Apparently not, because the iPod is much newer (a few months as opposed to three or four years).
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  • Reply 7 of 9
    patchoulipatchouli Posts: 402member
    [quote]Originally posted by leviathan:

    <strong>just to let everyone know that on various Microsoft programs, the spell check function ceases to work



    upon writing up varying degrees of documents i have come to notice that Microsoft fails to spot even the simplist errors that a 3-year old child could even rectify <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    it appears that the simplist of words, Colour for example, are unnecessarily changed - people beware!



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    Spell-check your post. If it stops at 'colour' and 'simplist' and is suggesting to change them to 'color' and 'simplest' then you're using an American English dictionary. You want to select a British English dictionary as our languages do differ here and there. If this is the case, then surely you knew this? Perhaps you are just 'taking the piss'.



    While on this topic, I did notice that the Spell-check seems to catch more words or does a better job of suggesting words under Office XP versus Office X. Do they use different spellcheckers for each version? I agree, the spell-check in Apple Mail is awful.
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  • Reply 8 of 9
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    internet (without capital i)
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  • Reply 9 of 9
    leviathanleviathan Posts: 161member
    [quote]Originally posted by Patchouli:

    [QB]

    Perhaps you are just 'taking the piss'.

    QB]<hr></blockquote>



    finally someone has enough intelligance to realise my plan!



    haha, some of you are reeeeeally geeky and should get out more, the mere fact that this post was originally put in the 'appleoutsider' discussion should have thrown the game



    lighten up, live a little



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