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Word VBA >> Ignore All (spell check) on words with curly quotes

by and » Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:51:37 GMT

In Word 2000 and Word XP, when I check the spelling of a document that
contains curly quotes, words that contain an apostrophe are not included
in the Ignore All list when I click a misspelled word in the text and
select the Ignore All option. (The curly quotes are formed by the
AutoFormat As You Type option for replacing "Straight Quotes" with
"Smart Quotes").

Example: What was Bwa'ana looking for?

In this example, Bwa'ana is considered two words, Bwa and ana. Now if I
use only straight quotes, Bwa'ana is considered a single word, which is
included in the Ignore All list.

So now comes my question: Is there a way to have Word 2000 and XP
include words with curly quotes in the middle into the Ignore All list
(or in a custom dictionary, for that matter) as a single word?

I know I can use a placeholder for the apostrophe and replace it after
the spell check, but that can be quite inconvenient when you have lots
of those words.

TIA from AndY

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Word VBA >> Ignore All (spell check) on words with curly quotes

by Word Heretic » Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:47:58 GMT


G'day and < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >,

I entered Bwa'ana with the straight quote, added it to the dictionary,
then neither straight nor curly quote instances were reported as
spelling errors.

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novice04 wrote:

> Ie done a search on this topic and already tried to advice to 
 > type Alt + 0147 in the find box and to replace this with straight
 > quotes, but I just get two curly quotes when I do this.  The eplace
> straight quotes with smart quotesAutoFormat box was already unchecked
>> before I opened the document.  I'm using TNR 11 point font.  Any 
>> suggestions for a find/replace or macro to replace curly single and
>> double quotes with straight single and double quotes?

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