{"id":7245,"date":"2015-03-09T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:18:55","slug":"but-the-word-isnt-spelled-correctly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7245","title":{"rendered":"But the Word isn’t Spelled Correctly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My spelling is atrocious. I initially spelled that word “attrocious,” which is one T too many. And how I knew the word was misspelled was that a red zigzag appears beneath it. So what happens when you knowingly misspell a word and the red zigzag doesn’t show up?
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\nIn Microsoft Word, a couple of settings can prevent the appearance of the red zigzag of spelling shame.<\/p>\n

In Chrome, the red zigzag is a dotted red underline. That’s because the zigzag isn’t an HTML character style attribute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, you can right-click any misspelled word and choose the Ignore All command. After doing so, the red zigzag is hidden for that word, but in that document only.<\/p>\n

Second, for a more permanent solution, you can right-click the word and choose the Add to Dictionary command. This step is designed for words properly spelled but unknown to the spell-checking software. For example, my last name, Gookin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When you screw up in either instance, and unwittingly mark a wrongly-spelled word as correct, you can undo your mistake.<\/p>\n

In Microsoft Word 2013, follow these steps to undo the Ignore All command:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click the File Tab.<\/li>\n
  2. Choose Options.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the Proofing category.<\/li>\n
  4. Click the Recheck Document button.<\/li>\n
  5. Click Yes to confirm.<\/li>\n
  6. Click OK to close the Word Options window.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All words you’ve chosen to ignore suddenly re-grow the red zigzag of spelling peril.<\/p>\n

    If you still see the red zigzag of doom, check your personal spelling dictionary to see whether the word was added:<\/p>\n

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    1. Follow Steps 1 through 3 above.<\/li>\n
    2. Click the Custom Dictionaries button.<\/li>\n
    3. With the Default dictionary selected (Figure 1), click the Edit Word List button.<\/li>\n
    4. Peruse the list (Figure 2) for an unwanted word; select the word and click the Delete button to purge it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Figure 1. Choose the “default” dictionary, which is the one to which you add new words.<\/p><\/div>\n

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      Figure 2. An example of words in a custom dictionary.<\/p><\/div>\n

      These two steps are how I take to restore a misspelled word. If the word still refuses to grow a red zigzag beard, check for other custom dictionaries, such as CUSTOM.DIC<\/code> shown in Figure 1. (It was empty on my PC, probably a legacy from an earlier version of Word.)<\/p>\n

      If that doesn’t work, then you can either accept the word as spelled correctly or — heaven forfend! — look up the word in a real dictionary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Recover the absent red zigzag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}