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Original Title:"Contractions of Verb + Not"
The spell check in Outlook 2011 keeps underlining any verb that is contracted with "not." For example, "can't", "isn't", and so on are all flagged as misspellings. How can I stop this?
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac in business environments
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Everyone should send Microsoft feedback to let them know you want this bug fixed.
The more reports they get the higher it gets on the list to be fixed.
One more thing to check if you are on Lion. Have you upgraded to 10.7.4?
OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo) 1.4 GB
I reported above that I'm on 10.7.4 and Office 14.2.2 and still have this issue. I might try the tricks posted by Incubsudrives if it really starts to annoy me, but it would be much better if MS could fix this and other bugs in a timely manner.
One more thing to check if you are on Lion. Have you upgraded to 10.7.4?
OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo) 1.4 GB
I found this thread when searching for a solution to this problem. I can't follow most of the originally attempted steps as authentication and user creation on my Macbook is controlled by my company's network administrators. However, it's very obvious to me that this is some sort of rendering error, not an actual failing with spell check.
- The word get's flagged as an error the instant you type the apostrophe, but the t following the apostrophe does not get the underling.
- If auto-capitalization kicks in, the error underlining does not appear under the capitalized letter either. On the other hand if you type a space instead of the apostrophe, the first letter gets the underlining even if it gets converted to a capital letter.
- Compare writing 'Dodn't' which produces underlining under the whole word, regardless of auto-capitalization.
- Most telling, right clicking on the word does not have the 'learn/ignore spelling menu options.
- If you cut and paste a contraction, the pasted version never has error markup.
My hypothesis: Outlook is (incorrectly IMO) making a call to the spelling API as soon as an apostrophe is typed, but before any white space. It flags the word as incorrect and underlines it, but this is prior to the capitalization mechanism kicking in. When the user types the final letter of the contracted word, it calls the spelling API again, and doesn't see the word flagged as incorrect, so it leaves the word alone, but fails to un-markup the portions of the text previously marked as incorrect.
The simple solution would be to not call the spelling API until you've reached a more clear word boundary than an apostrophe.
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Are you upgraded to 14.2.2? I'm not seeing the contractions marked incorrectly now. I'm not sure if it was fixed in Outlook 14.2.2 or if a Finder preference changed this setting.