spellcheck error

[Regina Lee]

I have Word Home and Student 2007, and my spellcheck is not catching
"iNdentify" as a misspelling of "identify." I have looked through this
discussion group, and I learned about "exclusion dictionaries," which I have
not created, and "custom dictionaries," and when I check my custom
dictionary, I did not see "iNdentify" on the list. Is "iNdentify" mistakenly
listed as a real word in Microsoft's dictionary? Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It isn't marked as an error here (Word 2003), either. I will report this as
a bug.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word 2007 and 2003 catch it in UK English?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Looks like UK English is smarter than US English! But Terry Farrell, who I
would have thought was using UK English, says he can reproduce this in Word
2007.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Regina Lee]

Thanks so much, Suzanne and Graham. I tried to find a way to report the
error to MS myself, but was unable to. "INdentifed" in the past tense is
also not caught as a misspelling. I'm not sure about the form
"indentifying."

In cases like these, are patches made that we can download to improve our
Word's operation?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Oh, it's totally ingrained. Word accepts not only "indentify" but also
"indentifies," "indentified," and "indentifying." One user reported that
Word offered "indentified" as a "correction" for "indentifed." I suspect
whoever created the lexicon confused it with "indemnify."

I would not hold my breath waiting for a patch; instead, create an exclusion
dictionary (if you don't already have one) and add all the verb forms to it.
FWIW, when I did a Google search for "indentify," Google asked "Did you mean
identify?" It brought up numerous pages where the word actually was
misspelled (and some where it wasn't), perhaps because the text was
originally created in Word!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Graham Mayor]

Curioser and curioser
'iNdentify', 'Indentify' and 'indentify' are flagged as in error but
'indentifies' and 'indentified' are not?

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[Regina Lee]

Thanks again, Suzanne. Sigh...

Oh, it's totally ingrained. Word accepts not only "indentify" but also
"indentifies," "indentified," and "indentifying." One user reported that
Word offered "indentified" as a "correction" for "indentifed." I suspect
whoever created the lexicon confused it with "indemnify."

I would not hold my breath waiting for a patch; instead, create an exclusion
dictionary (if you don't already have one) and add all the verb forms to it.
FWIW, when I did a Google search for "indentify," Google asked "Did you mean
identify?" It brought up numerous pages where the word actually was
misspelled (and some where it wasn't), perhaps because the text was
originally created in Word!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I see them all accepted, and, as you have realized from a thread elsewhere,
the ones you had marked as errors were "repeated words."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org