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Friday, July 17, 2009 10:05 PM

Contextual spelling for French in Office 2010

At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans on 13 July 2009, we announced the launch of the Office 2010 Technical Preview. This technical preview can now be downloaded by thousands of customers. You can discover the innovations on the Office 2010
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:25 AM

A context-sensitive speller for Spanish in Office 2007

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced an initiative targeting the Hispanic community , with special offers for Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 Language Pack in Spanish . It may be worth pointing out that the Spanish proofing tools in Office
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:00 AM

An academic evaluation of the Office 2007 contextual spelling checker

A few days ago, I discovered an analysis of our Office 2007 contextual speller carried out by Prof. Graeme Hirst, from the University of Toronto: An Evaluation of the Contextual Spelling Checker of Microsoft Office Word 2007 . We have discussed this new
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:50 AM

Can I remove a word from Office’s speller dictionary?

The other day, I was discussing a number of suggestions to improve Office’s spell-checker . A customer was suggesting we should allow users to delete individual items from Word’s spell-checker lexicon. This feature is already available, in fact: if you
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 5:30 AM

Suggested improvements to Microsoft Word’s spell-checker

A few days ago, James wrote about the articles the Seattle Times published about our Natural Language Group and the Office spell-checkers . One of these articles was encouraging the Seattle Times readers to suggest improvements ( What words would you
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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:41 AM

Lets Play Two?

For opening day this year, my beloved Chicago Cubs unveiled a statue of the immortal Ernie Banks . On its pedestal was engraved the catchphrase that made famous his enthusiasm for the game of baseball: “Let’s Play Two”. Except that the sculptor forgot
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:14 AM

Untied Nations or United Nations?

During my vacation in December 2007, I had a chance to visit a friend of mine who works for the United Nations in Bangkok. On a Friday evening right before Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the UN Bangkok office, I chatted with his colleagues in
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:48 PM

Contextual spelling: US English only?

Laurie asked us via the Email/Contact link: I was always under the impression that the Contextual Spell Checker only works if your language is set to English (US) rather than English (UK). However, I have recently seen the blue squiggly lines appear for
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Friday, January 19, 2007 7:25 PM

Wow, more praise for contextual spelling

Thanks to Mike Calcagno for pointing this out.... See page 2 with the paragraph that starts with "Other improvements." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/technology/18pogue.html?8dpc -- Jay Waltmunson (Program Manager)
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:41 PM

Go Blue Squiggles! Mossberg praises contextual spellchecker

Some lovely words about the contextual spellchecker from Walter Mossberg's review of Office 2007 in today's Wall Street Journal online. To quote: There are other nice additions. In Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, there is now contextual spell checking,
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:51 PM

Shouldn’t we use the Office 2007 contextual speller when writing a news release?

It’s interesting to see how useful the new Contextual Speller feature in Office 2007 can be. If Office 2007 had been used to write the news release about the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 issued yesterday by Microsoft over the PR Newswire, the following
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:55 PM

Update: People Still Smarter than Computers!

Jonathan & Margaret over on the Word blog have some nice words about the contextual spellchecker . They mention a well-known (but anonymous) poem, “Ode to My Spell Checker”--just the sort of thing the contextual spellchecker ought to handle, you might
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Friday, June 30, 2006 6:06 PM

How to turn on contextual spelling in 2007 Office Word

Contextual spelling is turned on by default if your machine has at least 1 GB of RAM; however, it can still work just fine in the background with less RAM. So, how do you turn it on if it's not already on? First, click on the Office button in the upper
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Monday, June 19, 2006 8:47 PM

Cool new feature in Office: The Blue Squiggle

Okay, so the red squiggle is there to help you when you’ve typed a word that’s not in the dictionary. And the green squiggle is there to catch grammatical errors. But, Contextual Spelling is pretty good at telling you when you’ve typed in a word that’s
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