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Outlook Spell Check - Ignore 'technial' words

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Distraction

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Jan 30, 2004
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I work in a data environment and am constantly sending emails with tablenames and columnnames in it, or snippets of query code.

Is there a way to make the Spell Check ignore any words with an underscore in it, like 'cust_id'?

It would be WAAAY too tedious to add every word to the ignore list, and I want to be spell-checked, just not for the technical jargon.

Is there a sneaky way around this?

Thanks
 
Not unless you can just use a wildcard, like this:

*_*

Of course, you could always use one like this as well:

*,*
U

[wink] - Okay, just thought I'd have a little bit o' fun with the last suggestion. The first one was a real suggestion, though. I've never tried anything like it, but if anything will work, it'll have to be a wild-card.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me
 
Nice thought.

Unfortunately, it treats them as literals. So it will ignore *_* but not cust_id.

But that's got me thinking. Maybe _i would cause cust_id to be ignored. Let me try some things.
 
That worked.

So, if anyone else is interested, you could just build a list in notepad and then copy it into the Custom exclude list. The list could contain _a all the way through _z and a_ all the way through z_ and numbers, too. If it sees it once in a word, it ignores the word completely.

For example, adding _i and 2_ alone allowed me to put in:

select * from b2_cust_base where cust_id is not null

...and it properly ignored b2_cust_base and cust_id.

Woot!
 
Distraction,

So happy for you that it worked.

Perhaps you got distracted, but wouldn't it be nice to reward the person that suggested the solution?
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In case of blocks of text rather than single words there is another option, it is possible to define own style, with spell checking excluded.

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In word: write any text, mark it, deselect spell checking, in 'styles' drop-down write its name, say 'technical'. Having it in 'Normal.dot' template you can mark a part of document and choose 'technical' style for it. All its settings, including spelling checking options, will be applied.

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I'm guessing that only works if you're using Word as your email editor, right?

If so, since I don't use it as my editor I don't think the style would carry over.
 
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