Microsoft KB Archive/62337

Works: Dictionary Counts Errors Without Flagging Them

PSS ID Number: Q62337 Article last modified on 06-10-1996

2.00

MACINTOSH

= SUMMARY =

After Microsoft Works finishes spell checking a Word Processor document, a dialog box is displayed containing the number of words in the document and the number of words it didn’t recognize. The number of errors may not equal the number of times Works flagged an error. This behavior is caused by the spell checking options that are selected.

Choosing Options from the Spell menu tells Works to look for or skip certain types of words and word combinations. If an option such as Two Spaces After Period is not selected and Works encounters a single space after a period, Works counts this as an error but does not bring up a dialog box showing the space after a period. If the document contains ten sentences with a single space after a period, the spelling checker appears to have encountered no errors. However, ten errors are counted, but none of them are flagged.

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