I find it quite annoying when I'm working somewhere new that when I email people with unusual names (ones that aren't in Word's dictionary, or in my custom dictionary) they come up as mis-spellings because they're not in the dictionary.

Future versions of software should (optionally) include your contacts as allowable nouns.
-- neilp, Aug 23 2004

it should allow known companies too.
-- neilp, Aug 23 2004


Plus "New Curse Words" via continually updated link to the halfbakery idea.
-- phundug, Aug 23 2004


"Dear Miss Spelling..."
-- lostdog, Aug 23 2004


The more I think about this, the more I wonder why in the hell Word and Outlook don't do this already. After all, they come in the same box! Ah, well, there I go expecting things to make sense.
-- krelnik, Aug 23 2004


[contracts] - 'shithouse' is in popular usage in Australia, so probably feeds in from there.
-- neilp, Aug 24 2004


it isn't global ? don't they both use MS Proof (i.e. custom.dic ? ) I was sure they did..
-- neilp, Aug 24 2004


certainly shouldn't (he says, thinking to himself, that that's almost certainly a good enough reason alone for them to have coded it that way).

Perhaps I should send you a copy of my custom.dictionary synchroniser..
-- neilp, Aug 24 2004


UnaBubba... I think he meant words that feature in dictionaries, but not your native language dictionary. In this day and age it's a complete nonsense to have to specify the language you're using.. just throw RAM and CPU at the problem and have full multilanguage checking.
-- neilp, Aug 24 2004


I'm pretty sure I have this.
-- -----, Feb 28 2005


you mean it doesn't have a problem with you typing [....] ? which program do you use ?
-- neilp, Mar 18 2005


You can add anything you want to the dictionary but it would be very nice to have it look across contact fields if a user wanted it set that way.
-- bristolz, Mar 18 2005



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