Where is "ignore rule" in Word 2013?

Anonymous
2013-03-04T16:57:23+00:00

I cannot find "Ignore rule" in grammar and spelling check for Word 2013. Further, I cannot find any documentation that indicates it exists in this edition of Word.

Did Microsoft get rid of this awesome feature? How is that possible?

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Anonymous
2014-01-20T04:01:09+00:00

WORK AROUND TO ACCESS "IGNORE RULE" FEATURE:

Hi, I was having the same problem, but someone in this thread suggested the feature had not been removed (as it wasn't in a list of removed features), but simply "missed" in the new UI.

This made me wonder if perhaps there was a way to use VBA to create a macro that would directly access the "ignore rule" button.

It didn't take me long to discover that Word 2013 actually contains the "old-style" spelling and grammar check UI, complete with the "ignore rule" option, still working but not normally accessible.

If you are a VBA beginner the following are detailed instructions:

In word, hit Alt+F11 to open VBA

Right click on "Normal" in the left hand side project pane, and select "Insert" and "Module"

Right click on the module you've selected and select "View Code"

In the right-hand side window, paste the following:

Sub OldStyleSpellcheck()'' OldStyleSpellcheck Macro'' This macro open the old (2010) style Spelling and Grammar window        Application.Dialogs(wdDialogToolsSpellingAndGrammar).Show   End Sub

Now close VBA

If you want a quick way to access this macro, in Word go to "File", "Options" and select "Quick Access Toolbar". Under the drop-down menu "Choose commands from" select "Macros" and you should see the Normal.Module.OldStyleSpellCheck. Select it and click the "Add > >" button to move it to your toolbar. You can use the "Modify" button to change it's appearance.

After hitting OK you'll see the icon for this macro along the top of word in the Quick Access Toolbar. You can click this instead of the usual spell check button and it will run the "old style" word spell check window, allowing you to select "ignore rule" as you always could!

Would be nice if Microsoft incorporated this feature into the new UI instead of required such a rigmarole to get to it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-06-11T16:25:44+00:00

    Thank you to BlairGranville for this VBA fix.  It worked great.  I am incredulous that MS would get rid of the "ignore rule".  It is an idiotic mistake.  The people who changed this have, obviously, never written documents for different audiences for different purposes.  In some documents, it's OK to use a contraction or a personal pronoun, in others it is not!!!  Just another example that MS has gotten so big that it can ignore many of the real needs of its users -- at whim!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-21T16:20:20+00:00

    I've installed the VBA fix, but the macro won't run.  Any suggestions?  I've just manually ignored "Passive Voice" 75 times in one document and it's driving me crazy!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-22T09:59:16+00:00

    Hi, not sure why it wouldn't work - I just tried it on my copy of Word 2013 and it still seems to work fine.

    My instructions might not have been the clearest, maybe you could try adding the macro again or checking if you missed anything the first time?

    One thing to note is that adding the macro doesn't actually fix the default spell check for Word . It's more like it gives you a separate way to access the old style of spell check. You still need to make sure you're actually running the macro itself, rather than just using the usual Word 2013 spell check that shows up on the right hand side. You can either add a shortcut to the macro in the QuickAccess Toolbar, as explained in my original post, and then click this new spellcheck button each time you want to check, or you can assign the macro to a hotkey as suggested by another user and then use the hotkey to run the spell check.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-03T00:29:15+00:00

    It works great.

    After I added the macro to the Quick Access Toolbar, I changed the icon and the name to something recognizable. I did it by going into "Customize Quick Access Tool Bar". Select the macro with a left click and click "Modify" under the Quick Access Toolbar box. There you can choose from many icons and also change the display name into something shorter. Click OK and OK again. Done.

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