Unspellcheckable words

by David Foster
6th May 2013

Maybe that's a new word itself! :-)

What I mean though is words like sow and sew and the there(s) - or is that their(s) - or they're(s)... Words that can be spelt correctly but are the wrong spelling for the context.

Does anyone have a good way of searching these out when editing?

:-)

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Roy It's Microsoft Office word 2007

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Andrew Atkinson
06/05/2013

Hi Andrew, Could you let me know the version of 'Word' you're using!

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Roy Stedall-Humphryes
06/05/2013

I'm lucky, my version of word has a feature that highlights words that might be spelled correctly but don't fit grammatically.

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