I’d like to take this opportunity to tell Microsoft Word to step off
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I don’t like it when Microsoft Word gets high and mighty with its grammar check and underlines things with a green squiggly line.
As you may know, a red squiggly line means a misspelled word. Rather it means Word thinks it’s misspelled. A green squiggly line means Word believes the grammar is jacked up.
Almost every time Word acts up on me it’s flagging a sentence fragment. Yes, that’s right. I intended to write a sentence fragment. Right there.
In.
That.
Paragraph.
I wanted to be disjointed. Go take your green line somewhere else.*
*Is there a way to turn off the grammar check in Word? If I were motivated I’d search that out on Google. But I know someone in the Lounge will do it for me. Thanks in advance!
Tags: Things that get on my very last nerve, Things that require my sarcasm
That annoys me too. I tend to write like I think or talk, and okay, so I’m not Polly Prim in my vocabulary, but that is me, Microsoft. And I like me like that. So there!
Never heard of Polly Prim, but I wouldn’t mind meeting her for a cup of coffee.
Isn’t it funny that the Grammar Nazis out there (I consider myself at least a Sergeant in the Grammar Gestapo) overlook sentence fragments but they get uptight over wrong word usage. There/their/they’re, to/too, lose/loose, weak/week.
Side note: My brain dies a little every time I read, “I want to LOOSE weight.”
It’s LOSE. You want to LOSE weight so you clothes will be too LOOSE!
Yes, you can turn off the constant grammar and spellcheck. Not sure what version of Word you are using (if you are using the crappy one with the crappy ribbon bar, not sure where you would find it), but in my version of Word, you go to Tools/Options – then the Spelling and Grammar tab. Uncheck the “Check grammar as you type” checkbox. You can do the same for spelling. Voila. :)
I don’t know what version I’m using either, but your instructions worked and now I can type sentence fragments while giving Word the imaginary finger.
Yay-yeah! Thanks Steve.
Now, if we could just get someone to tell MS that there’s no such thing as “American English” – there’s only “English” – we would be in business :)
I wonder if you have a UK English option. It wouldn’t be Canadian but it’s European sort of, isn’t it? It would add ou instead of just the o, wouldn’t it?
Yep I agree with Steve. Tools –> options click on the Spelling and Grammar tab and under the heading Grammar you click the box that says Check Grammar as you type.
The Grammar annoys me and the spelling annoys me at work because every time I reset my computer to English UK it decides that I am in the US and that I meant to click on English US lol.
I would seriously want to drop kick the computer if it reset my computer from UK to US. PUNK!
My entire blog consists of sentence fragments. It’s part of my style. So Microsoft can suck it. Hard.
I want to make a T-shirt so we can all identify each other.
Where do I send my money? Love. It.
turn it off sister, then you won’t get the lines. i think it’s under tools, options…
Man everyone seems to know how to turn it off. How did I miss the memo?
That’s why I do all my writing in a DOS prompt, and save all my work on a tape drive.
Well, not really but it sounded good. I hate the grammar check too.
Since I know you’re a computer guy I totally believed you. It did sound good.
Sentence fragments are fun.
Yes. They. Are. Word needs to lighten up.
Hola CG,
I too can’t stand Word for that very reason. Check out the tools option should be able to de-select the grammar check.
For anyone who’s read my blog it ripe with misspellings and grammar jacks ups. That’s the way I likes it. LMAO.
my blog it ripe with misspellings and grammar jacks ups:
i just don’t know any better.
(laughs) That’s the fun of blogs, isn’t it?
That’s why I don’t write my posts in Word. Because I can’t not type in fragments. That’s why. I call it style, Word just doesn’t appreciate creative license and flair.
Word is definitely an uptight Victorian chick wearing scratchy pantaloons in 90-degree weather. In my opinion.
I whole heartedly agree! I hate it when Microsoft Word thinks I’m stupid and IT decides what IT thinks I want/mean. In particular – when Word decides it wants me to use indented bullets when I don’t particularly want bullets. Or when I want to spell in Canadian NOT American – there’s more than one way to spell favour or labour, to name a few.
You know what’s weird? Our computer in the basement tells me to spell color as coloUr, favor as favoUr, etc. I wonder if that computer is Canadian.
If you have Word 2007, go to the Review tab, and click “Spelling and Grammar”. On the bottom left of the window that pops up is a checkbox for “Check Grammar”. uncheck it and you’re good to go.
If you’re using an older version of Word, you are very lucky (stupid work has 2007 and I HATE it), and you can use Steve’s directions above.
Done! Thanks for the tip. I still have no idea what version we’re using but those directions worked. Thanks!
I’m all about the fragments, too, sister. I finally just turned off the grammar check on my laptop at home…it’s still with me at work, unfortunately. Don’t you be tellin’ me when I can’t use a fragment, Word!
I know! It’s really uppity, methinks, and I do feel offended when it tries to correct me. Yes, there are rare occasions when Word was right and I was wrong.
But those are few and far between.
Word is so annoying! But my bugbear of the day is my iPhone, which keeps inserting apostrophes into “lets” and “its” in places where they don’t need an apostrophe. At least Word just tells you off and doesn’t auto-correct it.
Okay…late post I know…but a question:
Except for referring to tennis “lets”, when would you use “let’s” without the apostrophe. I think I might be just drawing a blank.
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