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Spellchecker not working for words in capital letters
Thread poster: Fernando Larrazabal
Fernando Larrazabal
Fernando Larrazabal
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Jul 6, 2023

Why is the spellchecker not working for full words in capital letters?

Wordfast Pro 8.4.0 under Windows 11
 
neilmac
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MS Word isuue Jul 8, 2023

AFAIK, you can set up the MS Word spellchecker to either ignore or include words in all caps. Or at least it used to be possible in older versions.
 
Philippe Locquet
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Hunspell or Microsoft? Jul 10, 2023

Fernando Larrazabal wrote:

Why is the spellchecker not working for full words in capital letters?

Wordfast Pro 8.4.0 under Windows 11


Which spellchecker are you using in Wordfast Pro? Hunspell or Microsoft?
"full words in capital letters". Do you mean the all letters of a word are upper case like "WORD"?
 
Fernando Larrazabal
Fernando Larrazabal
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SPELLCHECKER Jul 11, 2023

It does not work when all letters are capitals, as in SPELLCHECKER.

Just now, it has worked with Hunspell, but not with Microsoft.
I have a subscription to Office 365.
 
Stefan Stefanov
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Check MS Word settings Aug 16, 2023

Fernando Larrazabal wrote:

It does not work when all letters are capitals, as in SPELLCHECKER.

Just now, it has worked with Hunspell, but not with Microsoft.
I have a subscription to Office 365.


Like neilmac suggested above, did you check the MS Word spellchecker settings? When you select the MS Word spellchecker, Wordfast Pro only uses it as preconfigured.

In MS Word, click File > Options > Proofing > untick "Ignore words in UPPERCASE".



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