[EarlThePearl]

Say you were typing the following sentence in Word:

Mr, Watson is a moron.

Now you run a spell check and see that after Mr you have a comma, and it want to add a period. But what happens is that the period gets added after Mr, but the comma stays as well. What it should be doing is replacing the comma with a period. Anyone have this issue before?

 

[EarlThePearl]

And here is what you end up with.

 

[Maxxym]

thats because Mr. is short for Mister???? :dunno:

 

[EarlThePearl]

thats because Mr. is short for Mister???? :dunno:

Thank you captain obvious.

What I need is a . only, not a ., together. Instead of just replacing the , with a . it adds the dot leaving the , I mis-keyed in the first place. I shouldn't have to go back and delete the , it should just get replaced by the . ...feel me?

Anyways I figured out a work around by chainging up some stuff in the AutoCorrect options. Just hope the user will never need to type "Mr," or "Mrs," EVER AGAIN!

 

[Maxxym]

Mine does the same thing.

 

[R1Budha]

it's that way because it also sees it as being gramaically correct to have a comma after Mr
Microsofts grammar leaves a lot to be desired.
In other words it is saying you forgot the period, but it's okay to have a comma after the period.
Stupid programmers is my reasoning.

 

[yamahog]

There are plenty of little bugs like that in every software. I know there is somewhere that you can report things like that to Microsoft. How about when you get the green underlined word or phrase and you click ignore, but it appears again later or when you open the document again. I think another major problem is that the English language is so illogical that it is imposible to catch and correct everything.


As you type it, the red underline will show up. Rather that waiting for spellcheck, if you click the red underline, then on the correct Mr. your cursor is left at the comma, where you can then delete. That's the only thing I can figure out. Someone will know how to customize spellcheck.

 

[EarlThePearl]

Like I said, I made a new rule in the AutoCorrect options to replace Mr, and Mrs, with Mr. and Mrs. respectively. I also made Word the default editing program within Outlook, so it will fix it there too. Apparently she has a bad habit of typing commas in place of periods.

The strange thing about it all is that the user said it used to do this. As far as I can tell, everyone's Word will do the same thing (i.e Mr.,) until you make the new rule. How it was working before I have no idea. Plus her auto text was turned off. I'm pretty sure she creates these issues on her own tinkering around with stuff she doesn't understand.

 

[R1Budha]

1DiOt error then.
unplug her computer and tell her to use that old ass typewriter in the back room till you get a chance to "fix" it!!!:crash