Custom dictionary with "spaces"

[Itomi]

Hello, I would like to enter such a word in my custom dictionary :

Klop Blop

So that klop or blop alone will be recognize as an error but "Klop
Blop" will be wellspelled.

Is it possible ?

:::ito:::

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Hello, I would like to enter such a word in my custom dictionary :

Klop Blop

So that klop or blop alone will be recognize as an error but "Klop
Blop" will be wellspelled.

Is it possible ?

No. You can't enter "such a word" in the custom dictionary because it's not
a word: it's two words. Word has precise definitions of what constitute a
word and what constitutes a word separator. As you'd expect, a space is a
word separator and can't be part of a single word. A hyphen is not a word
separator, so you could certainly add "Klop-Blop" and have it work. If you
try "Klop Blop", or a string of many more words, it will just add the first
word ("Klop") - not what you want.

Maybe it would be good if Word had a Spelling preference to "Ignore
Auto-Text entries". Then you could add "Klop Blop" as an auto-completion in
Tools/AutoCorrect/AutoText and it would get ignored when you pressed Return
to accept the AutoCompletion. But that doesn't happen now. You could request
that feature via the Help menu/Send Feedback.

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[Graeme Mair]

Maybe it would be good if Word had a Spelling preference to "Ignore
Auto-Text entries". Then you could add "Klop Blop" as an auto-completion in
Tools/AutoCorrect/AutoText and it would get ignored when you pressed Return
to accept the AutoCompletion. But that doesn't happen now. You could request
that feature via the Help menu/Send Feedback.

I seem to remember a show day I was at where Microsoft were showing a very
pre release version of MS Office that "Autocorrected" the word God with Bill
Gates

Is that not possible now?

Cheers
Graeme

 

[Beth Rosengard]

I seem to remember a show day I was at where Microsoft were showing a very
pre release version of MS Office that "Autocorrected" the word God with Bill
Gates

Is that not possible now?

! Yes that's still possible, but the original poster was talking about
spell checking, not AutoCorrection; in fact Paul's explanation involved
using AutoText to do exactly that.

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