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Yeah, ditto.
Which certain parts?
You can select text and go to Tools>Language and check the "do not check
spelling or grammar" checkbox.
Heh! It is one of the reasons I still use v.X. I leave spell check off
everything, then select what I want to check and hit cmd-opt-L.
How is that a reason you still use Word X, Elliot? This function actually
changed for the better. Anyhow, I think you are confused between "show me
errors as I type" and "don't check errors in this text".
2004 puts wiggly blue lines under everything it thinks you can't spell
regardless of prefs doesn't it? That would drive me potty.
you might see if prefs lets you turn off 'check spelling as you type'
to see if it will lose the wigglies.
No, it doesn't. It uses blue flash lines to tell you AutoCorrect was
enacted. The red and green lines for spelling/grammar work just the same as
in Word 98, 2001, and X, and Prefs turns them off.
Another trick might be to set the language of the style to one you lack
the dictionary for. (Just a wild guess)
Richard, if you use styles--for instance, you might have a Bibliography
style that includes the hanging indent and the single line spacing with
space after each entry--then you can add that Language formatting above ("do
not check...") as part of the style, if you want possible typos flagged in
your main text but not in all the author names and journal abbreviations.
If a spell checker could stop morons writing "loose" for "lose" and
"then" for "than", then I might be forced to admit checkers had some
marginal utility. (heh! think what the grammar checker would do to that
sentence).
Spellcheckers have some marginal utility even with their limitations.
Grammar checkers don't, though.
