Olya Veselova (Microsoft, OneNote team) shared these words of wisdom:
Thanks for your reply Olya!
I appreciate it very much that you as a team member take the time for
communicating in the public forum.
Unfortunately it seems that I could not make really understandable
what I'm after :-(
I need the spellchecking when typing in both my main languages
(German and English) . But I hate the "red snakes" (as I call them
<g>) appearing whenever I import something from the Web into ON.
So what really bothers me is the fact that enabling the
spellchecking
engine is an either ... or situation working *globally* in ON. What
would urgently be needed IMO would be enabling/disabling
spellchecking on a per page, container and paragraph level.
Unfortunately there is not even an "Ignore all" option in ON
[siiiigh]
When you write in a different language, or import from the web,
OneNote sees spelling errors because the content is marked with the
wrong language.
I know. But that's only a *part* of the problem.
It's not only the language.
One almost and each any Webpage there are words and expressions which
are not contained in any normal dictionary. When imported into ON
which spellchecking they are underlined with the red "squiggles"
because they are seen as spelled wrong.
Take a webpage of a software producers, f.e.. Quite a lot of
underlining.
And there's quite some wrong spelling too. Only too many postings in
forum with bad spelling and quite some blog articles might have needed
spellchecking prior to being published.
I don neither need, nor want to correct what comes from others.
Therefore I simply want to have spellchecking disable for imported
stuff.
It is possible to have both your regular notes spell-checked and
also
avoid red squiggles when writing in a different language. Select the
notes in the different language and click Tools > Set Language and
then select the correct language. The red squiggles with disappeaer.
As said: it's not just the language. It's an imported "disappeaer" too
<gbg>.
I imported the posting I'm at present replying to.
There's *nine* squiggles in your part and four in mine. And that does
not look nice [grin, siiigh]
The problem with importing from the web is that OneNote does not
have
an easy way tp know which language the imported content is in. So
most
frequently the imported content is marked with the same language as
your current keyboard.
Not a problem really.
After a long time of suffering and some ranting in older threads I
meanwhile found out an easy way of changing the language by using the
language selection in the toolbar; it's simply awful to work with the
language selection TaskPane on a TabletPC in portrait mode and IMO the
present version is suffering from a bug (or better: design flaw) in so
far as the languages list is not reachable from the menu. But that's
a different topic.
To repeat what my complaining is about:
In addition to changing the language, the feature of disabling
spellchecking on a per page basis is needed, IMHO urgently.
IMHO it's not a proper solution to only have the option of either
disabling spellchecking *completely* or have the squiggles all over
the place.
Pls re-think the issue.
Rainald
P.S. As we are at spellchecking and the option:
Could you explain the logics behind the two checkboxes in the lower
half of the spellchecking options pane?
I thought on this over and over again.
Still I cannot get the sense of a setting with
a) Spellchecking during data entry enabled
and
b) not showing errors.
