Microsoft KB Archive/117254

Mac Works 4.0: Speller May Not Catch Repeated Words

PSS ID Number: Q117254 Article last modified on 10-22-1998

4.0

MACINTOSH

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Depending on where your insertion point is when you begin spell checking a document, the spelling checker may or may not catch the existence of repeated words. If the insertion point is between two repeated words when you start the spelling checker, the words will not be found.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Steps to Reproduce Problem
  Create a new Word Processor document in Works.   Type the following text: Mary had a little little lamb.   Place your insertion point (text cursor) between the two instances of the word “little.”   From the Tools menu, choose Spelling.   The spelling checker checks the second instance of “little” and the word “lamb,” then generates the following message: Continue checking at the beginning of the document?   Choose OK. 

The spelling checker returns to the beginning of the document and checks the words “Mary had a little,” and then stops at the point where it originally started. For this reason, the duplication of the word “little” is never noticed.

KBCategory: kbother KBSubcategory: macworkskb

Additional reference words: 4.00 mac repeated

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