Office Natural Language Team Blog

Nature is reporting that Owen Gingerich, head of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) consulted the Microsoft Word and the WordPerfect spellcheckers to help gauge how common the term pluton is. Pluton , of course, is the new term proposed by the...

One year ago today was National Punctuation Day. Those pesky, perverse, and pernicious pieces of punctuation are a big part of what keeps us in business. Both the spellchecker (apostrophes, anyone?) and the grammar checker (how many spaces come after...

Brand new in Office 2007: a red squiggle on the name Batchelor . Uh oh. I’d better explain. Everyone wants the Office spellchecker to recognize their name, and in fact we work very hard to make sure that our spellcheckers recognize not only frequently...