Re: Two correctly spelled words separated by ")"

I reviewed your comments and forwarded them to the user in question - seems
like turning on the grammar check or good ol' low-tech proofreading are the
answers. Thanks so much for your help ! - Lori

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

It isn't necessarily a common typo, but it's a very common problem for me
because when I move parenthetical text (by dragging and dropping), Word
doesn't automatically add space after the closing parenthesis (sensible,
since it might be followed by a punctuation mark), so I have to be careful
to make sure I've corrected the spacing around the moved text.

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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" <herb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I noticed the same thing. This might help the original poster. Oddly
enough,
this isn't a typo I ever recall having made, and certainly not worth
having
the otherwise-useless (IMO, anyway) grammar checker enabled. In my
experience, if I followed the grammar checker's advice, I'd be introducing
lots of grammatical errors into what I write. It's the perfect example of
AI
that isn't "there" yet.

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"Henk57" <Henk57.b07664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just an idea: if you run a spelling check with "Check_grammar" checked,
Word flags "spacing" unless it is a mathematical operator (It works
with ")" but not with "*" for instance). Does this help?
Henk

'Herb Tyson [MVP Wrote:
;2194042']There does not appear to be a setting that handles it. I've
consulted some
others, and our best guess is that this is allowed so that things such
as
f(x) and f(y) aren't flagged as misspellings (at least not due to the
parentheses... the solitary f, x, and y are flagged as errors here). It

would be nice if there were an explicit option to treat embedded
punctuation
marks as errors, but there's no such option at present.

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"Lori S" LoriS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in message
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Not sure what the generic summary should be, so here's the example -
users
can type something like:

application)please

- no spaces between the words and the ")" - and Word doesn't pick this
up
as
a misspelling - like it's treating the parentheses as a space. Is
there a
setting in Word to change or fix this issue of a character in the
middle
of
two correctly spelled words not being picked up as a misspelling?
Thank
you. -




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