Customising Microsoft Word punctuation checks

Question

I need to spell check documents about SQL Server applications. These will often mention "database..table". How do I get Word to ignore the double full stops?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any ways of stopping only some punctuation checks, but you can stop all of them. Go to Tools > Options > Spelling & Grammar, find the Settings... button and uncheck Punctuation from the list.

This might be a bit extreme, but I don't know any other methods. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

Under the spell checker, you can add "database..table" to your personal dictionary and ensure that Word uses both the standard dictionary and personal dictionary to check. Then when it is found in your personal dictionary, it will ignore it as ok.

Answer 3

Did you try to replace ".." with " " (blank) Or you can easily select "database..table", hit Ctrl+C to copy then Ctrl+F to open the Find and Replace window, then select Replace tab to replace with "database table"

Additionally you can try to use the Special feature Find What Text