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Spell Checker Tool Skips Text with Non-Alphabetic Characters

Article ID: 196762

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

Microsoft Pocket Word 1.0
Microsoft Pocket Word 2.0

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SYMPTOMS

When you use the spell checker tool in Pocket Word, some text may appear to be skipped.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if a portion of contiguous text contains one or no alphabetic characters and more than one non-alphabetic character.

MORE INFORMATION

The spell checker tool in Pocket Word, like the spell checker tool in Microsoft Word 97, ignores portions of text that contain non-alphabetic characters with no more than one alphabetic character. For example, the spell checker tool does not mark the following text as being misspelled:

'{/z}'

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