Spell check underlines contractions of Verb + Not

Anonymous
2011-08-17T11:22:05+00:00

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?

Outlook | MacOS | Legacy Outlook for Mac | For business

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Anonymous
2011-11-15T00:24:50+00:00

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.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-07-28T17:58:21+00:00

    If you have upgraded to Mountain Lion see this post:

    Problems when using contractions such as I'm, I'll, etc

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-07-27T15:37:16+00:00

    I figured this out.

    Go to Outlook >>> Preferences >>> Autocorrect.

    Click on the + in the lower left corner.

    In the left box type in the correctly spelled contraction.

    Tab to the right box and type in the correctly spelled contraction again.

    i.e. shouldn't and shouldn't (note, both are spelled correctly)

    Then tab again to save.

    It appears that now the autocorrect will replace what it thinks is the incorrectly spelled contraction with the correctly spelled contraction (even though they are the same) and the red highlight will disappear automatically.

    Do this for all the contractions you regularly use.

    Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-25T02:21:53+00:00

    Try testing in a new Identity and see if that helps. It's definitely working correctly for me and other testers. You don't even need to do setup accounts etc to test this in a new Identity. If it works, see this article

    How to move your data to a new Identity

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-25T02:14:49+00:00

    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

    http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1524

    Yes, installed the upgrade upon release.  There was no change in behavior of the reported issue.

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