Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka Word XP. Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first letter of all major words. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________
Hi Barry I just tried this with Word2003 and I don't have the same problem... Have you inadvertently added "Internet" with a big 'I' to your custom dictionary... That would explain the behaviour. You can check from "tools, spelling and grammar" and from the dialog box take "options", at the next one "custom dictionaries". Select a dictionary from the list and then "modify" (it's a bit cryptic!). Andy ::andy williamson ::wairua consulting limited ::po box 60-517 | Titirangi ::waitakere city | aotearoa/new zealand ::www.wairua.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Friday, 21 January 2005 13:20 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] small i and MSW Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka Word XP. Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first letter of all major words. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org/airjoin.html
i wouId say that the easiest way to do this is to modify the libraries that you use. if you turn off the default library and just use your custom library, you can then have what you want in that dictionary.... though you will lack all the normal spell correction until you put it into your dictionary. On Jan 20, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Andy Williamson & Ruth DeSouza wrote:
Hi Barry
I just tried this with Word2003 and I don't have the same problem... Have you inadvertently added "Internet" with a big 'I' to your custom dictionary... That would explain the behaviour.
You can check from "tools, spelling and grammar" and from the dialog box take "options", at the next one "custom dictionaries". Select a dictionary from the list and then "modify" (it's a bit cryptic!).
Andy
::andy williamson ::wairua consulting limited ::po box 60-517 | Titirangi ::waitakere city | aotearoa/new zealand ::www.wairua.com
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: Friday, 21 January 2005 13:20 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-l] small i and MSW
Re the small-i internet discussion, has anyone figured out how to beat the MS Word problem. Every time I type in "internet" instead of "Internet" and I have my grammar checker on, I get the cursed green-underline. I cannot, even using auto-correct and updating my spell checker, get it to stop nagging me to capitalize the "I". This is Word 2002, which I think is aka Word XP.
Any fixes for this? I don't want to force it to always small "i", as American Sociological style for books would be to capitalize the first letter of all major words.
Barry _____________________________________________________________________
Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
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