Re: Word should catalog misspelled words to study.

Suzanne, spelling is Fundamental to this purpose. Period.

Again, why so much resistance and the need to voice it?


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> A word processor is a way for people who know what they want to say and how
> to say it to put those words on paper. Some of the functions you mention
> (such as automatic creation of TOCs) are fundamental to this purpose. Auto
> formatting certainly facilitates it. Keep in mind that a huge target market
> for Microsoft is "knowledge workers" (secretaries and the like) and
> executives in large corporations. They need to be able to create letters and
> reports and easily and quickly as possible. It is assumed that they either
> know how to spell or will depend on spell check to correct their spelling.
> I'll grant you that this is an unreasonable assumption in the first instance
> and a dangerous one in the second, but there you have it.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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>
> "rndthought" <rndthought@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:61E72678-924E-421E-8801-E2C112916567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Suzanne,
> >
> > You make a good observation in regards to trying to be all things. As for
> > keeping MS Word from loosing sight of the "primary functions" (or
> focus)... I
> > believe even a cursory overview of the options and abilities in Word
> show's
> > the ship has set sail (Invoicing with macros, auto creation of TOC, auto
> > formatting, Auto fill forms, creating HTML documents, altering Image
> > attributes - all on a word processor???). It seems to me that MS Word
> most
> > definitely has higher aspirations than that of a functioned word processor
> or
> > computerize type writer.
> >
> > If a spelling tutor, I like that term Suzanne, doesn't belong in a program
> > whose primary purpose is to type words in the creation of documents,
> > presumably for purpose of communicating information accurately...where
> then?
> >
> > This isn't a fundamental change in the program or a complete change in the
> > interface (which is coming in the next version)...simply an option (or if
> > possible a macro as Greg has shown in a limited fashion) that could be
> > enabled for those that wish to expand their spelling abilities. Why so
> much
> > resistance and need to voice it?
> >
> > Thank you again for the thoughtful comments.
> >
> > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
> >
> > > Where Word most often gets into trouble is through trying to be all
> things
> > > to all people. I don't imagine, however, that the Word developers will
> ever
> > > so far lose sight of the primary functions of Word as to incorporate
> > > features that make it a spelling tutor.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > > Words into Type
> > > Fairhope, Alabama USA
> > > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
> > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
> newsgroup so
> > > all may benefit.
> >
>
>
.

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