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Microsoft Word Documents

by Bemused, October 12, 2014

Messages: 7

Language: English

Bemused (User's profile) October 12, 2014, 11:54:53 AM

Hi
Sorry this post is only indirectly related to Esperanto.
It is more to do with issues arising from using the language than any aspect of the language itself.
When I write in Esperanto in a Microsoft Word document, any "non- English" word is underlined with red or green.
This can be very distracting.
Any ideas on how to get rid of the underlining would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

Fenris_kcf (User's profile) October 12, 2014, 11:57:59 AM

Bemused:Any ideas on how to get rid of the underlining would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah: Don't use MS Word.

tommjames (User's profile) October 12, 2014, 12:07:58 PM

Just turn off your spelling or grammar checker. It will be in Tools / Options or something like that.

lagtendisto (User's profile) October 12, 2014, 2:56:28 PM

Bemused:When I write in Esperanto in a Microsoft Word document, any "non- English" word is underlined with red or green.
Does your MS Word contains ribbon menue? (Word 2007 and newer) Then it should be possible to disable automatic spellchecker this way:

1 or 2.

lagtendisto (User's profile) October 12, 2014, 3:06:30 PM

Fenris_kcf:
Bemused:Any ideas on how to get rid of the underlining would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah: Don't use MS Word.
I can't remember that Word crashed on my computer. But I do remember very well how often LibreOffice crashed last half year. Anyway, LibreOffice remains on my computer. LibreOffice folks get better and better.

Alkanadi (User's profile) October 13, 2014, 2:00:16 PM

1- You can disable automatic spell check and grammar check. This is a good option but it might be annoying to turn it off and on all the time when switching between languages. Also, sometimes you might forget.

2- You can add esperanto words to the dictionary.

3- Best option: Use a different program for Esperanto. If you don't want to install one, you can use google docs or microsoft skydrive.

kaŝperanto (User's profile) October 14, 2014, 12:49:58 PM

Disabling spellcheck should achieve the desired results. You can always manually run spellcheck when you are finished with a document.

spreecamper:
Fenris_kcf:
Bemused:Any ideas on how to get rid of the underlining would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah: Don't use MS Word.
I can't remember that Word crashed on my computer. But I do remember very well how often LibreOffice crashed last half year. Anyway, LibreOffice remains on my computer. LibreOffice folks get better and better.
I have never had LibreOffice crash in several years of use, but I don't use it on Windows. I also haven't had Word crash on me in a long while.

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