How can one set a symbol, such as greek letter "pi," to be identif

[William S.]

as a noun, specifically "Plaintiff," in Word? I have already set up my
shortcuts to insert and/or replace Plaintiff with "pi" symbol, but Word does
not recognize this symbol as a noun and I constantly recieve the green and/or
red underlining grammar errors b/c of this setting. Can I identify this
symbol to word as a noun, or as the specific word "plaintiff?" Same thing for
"delta" symbol and "Defendant."

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello William

as a noun, specifically "Plaintiff," in Word? I have already set up my
shortcuts to insert and/or replace Plaintiff with "pi" symbol, but Word does
not recognize this symbol as a noun and I constantly recieve the green and/or
red underlining grammar errors b/c of this setting. Can I identify this
symbol to word as a noun, or as the specific word "plaintiff?" Same thing for
"delta" symbol and "Defendant."

Both spelling/grammer lines should go away if you format those symbols
as "Do not check spelling and grammer" (Tools | Language, depending on
your version of Word). OTOH, do you really need those symbols in the
final text? Sounds like an AutoCorrect-entry to convert "pi" into
"plaintiff" while you type might be an idea, too?

HTH
Robert

 

[William S.]

I think I already told word to ignore, but when it ignore those symbols it
thinks my sentence is screwy and underlines the preceding work with an "order
of words" error. Yes, I am typing very long law school course outlines, and I
much prefer the "pi" and "delta" symbols over the words to conserve space. I
would like to keep the symbols in the final versions. I know how to turn it
off for specific docs, i.e. briefs, ect. where I do not want symbols to
appear.

I do not want Word to stop identifying all "order of word" errors. If it
would just recognize "pi" and "delta" as plaintiff and defendant, it would
stop all of my problems.

 

[Graham Mayor]

No you can't do that and substituting a symbol for a word will produce a
sentence that is gibberish as far as the grammar checker is concerned. Turn
the grammar checker off it will not help your thought processes nor help
produce a document that is readable - but on the other hand this seems like
a law course and so I don't suppose that matters You can always run a
separate grammar check later - if you must. It will still see those
sentences as gibberish as I guess will anyone reading the document later.

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[William S.]

Thanks, Graham. I appreciate your taking the time to answer my question. Best
Regards, - Will Scheil