Monday, December 21, 2009

Why does MS Office (and Word) Spell Checker assume ';advise'; s/b ';advice';?

Whenever I enter ';Please advise';, Spell Checker prompts that ';advise'; is incorrect; that the correct word is ';advice';! This is obviously nonsense, as one is a verb and the other is a noun. So why doesn't Spell Checker already know this? Anyone have any constructive ideas as to why MS Office applications (i.e. Outlook %26amp; Word) don't recognize the verb, advise?Why does MS Office (and Word) Spell Checker assume ';advise'; s/b ';advice';?
Hmmm. I have Office2000 and I ran ';please advise'; and it did not object. Neither did our website's spell checker. See what happens if next time it pauses on ';advise';, you ';add it to the dictionary'; and run it again and see what it says. Then make sentences out of both advice and advise and see if the problem fixes.Why does MS Office (and Word) Spell Checker assume ';advise'; s/b ';advice';?
That's Microsoft for you... :-P. Sorry I can't help you. I use a Mac... Good luck, though!

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