Spelling Has "ahs"

Hello,

Opinicus is right and it is also possible to add "ahs" to the exclude
dictionary in Office 2007 (look for "exclude dictionary" or "exclusion
dictionary" in the Office Help - it's pretty much the same procedure as the
one described below).

Note that the new context-sensitive speller in Office 2007 flags a number of
contexts where "ahs" should not be used (that would probably address your
user's problem). You will see a blue squiggly line under "ahs" if you write
something like "He ahs never done it before", for instance. But you will not
get any flag under "ahs" if you write "we definitely got oohs and ahs all
around when we launched this product". See this blog for more information
about the contextual speller:
http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguage/archive/tags/contextual+speller/...ault.as

Note that I would not recommend adding "savour" to the exclude dictionary.
If you set the language of your text to US English, it will be flagged. If
you set it to UK English, it will not be squiggled, since it's the correct
spelling in British English. The speller enables you to capture these UK/US
distinctions without having to resort to the exclude dictionary.

I hope this helps,

Thierry

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]
Microsoft Natural Language Group





"Opinicus" wrote:

> "Toby" <postmaster.RemoveThis@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:48452b81$0$662$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>
> > I have a user who keeps typing ahs instead of has, however, the spell
> > check seems to accept ahs, despite it not being in the custom.dic.
> >
> > I have tested this on several other machines, and they all allow ahs - as
> > far as I am aware ahs is not an english word, so why does it allow it (and
> > can it be stopped!)
>
> (What I'm about to say applies to Word 2003, Word 2002, and some earlier
> versions. I don't know if it applies to later versions than those.)
>
> You need to put "ahs" in what's called an "exception dictionary". The file
> has the same name as the ".lex" files used for spell-checking (mine, for
> example are "MSSP3EN.LEX" and "MSSP3TR.LEX") except that they must have the
> extension ".exc" rather than ".lex", so the corresponding exception
> dictionary names in my case are "mssp3en.exc" and "mssp3tr.exc". Your .lex
> files are in the "program files\common files\microsoft shared\proof" folder.
> The .exc file goes in the same folder as your custom.dic file.
>
> In the .exc file you put spellings which are passed by Word's proof-reader
> but which you don't want such as "theatre", "savour", and "ahs" for example.
> You have to restart Word for the exception dictionary to take effect.
>
> Another thing your user can do is make an autocorrect entry that
> automatically changes "ahs" to "has" whenever it's typed.
>
> I find it's best to do both.
>
> --
> Bob
> http://www.kanyak.com
>
>
>

"Opinicus" <gezgin.DeleteThis@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> "Toby" <postmaster.DeleteThis@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:48452b81$0$662$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>
>> I have a user who keeps typing ahs instead of has, however, the spell
>> check seems to accept ahs, despite it not being in the custom.dic.
>>
>> I have tested this on several other machines, and they all allow ahs - as
>> far as I am aware ahs is not an english word, so why does it allow it
>> (and can it be stopped!)
>
> (What I'm about to say applies to Word 2003, Word 2002, and some earlier
> versions. I don't know if it applies to later versions than those.)
>
> You need to put "ahs" in what's called an "exception dictionary". The file
> has the same name as the ".lex" files used for spell-checking (mine, for
> example are "MSSP3EN.LEX" and "MSSP3TR.LEX") except that they must have
> the extension ".exc" rather than ".lex", so the corresponding exception
> dictionary names in my case are "mssp3en.exc" and "mssp3tr.exc". Your .lex
> files are in the "program files\common files\microsoft shared\proof"
> folder. The .exc file goes in the same folder as your custom.dic file.
>
> In the .exc file you put spellings which are passed by Word's proof-reader
> but which you don't want such as "theatre", "savour", and "ahs" for
> example. You have to restart Word for the exception dictionary to take
> effect.
>
> Another thing your user can do is make an autocorrect entry that
> automatically changes "ahs" to "has" whenever it's typed.
>
> I find it's best to do both.
>
> --
> Bob
> http://www.kanyak.com

Thanks Bob, I will give it a go tomorrow!

Toby...