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Spell Not Bringing Up Word Choices Correctly
DocumentID: 650738
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:01 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer added the word "mastocarcinoma" to her supplemental dictionary and then compressed it so the word would come up as an option when it was misspelled. It would not come up unless the misspelling was the same length as the original word. We put the word in the main dictionary and that seemed to help a little. Here are the results:
mastocarcinom - did not find it
castocarcinoma - did not find it
mastocaricnoman - did not find it
mastocaricnomo - found it

We then deleted the supplemental dictionary and added the word to the main word list in the main dictionary with the SPELL.EXE utility and tried the following words:
mastocarcinom - found it
castocarcinoma - did not find it
mastocaricnoman - found it
mastocaricnomo - did not find it
Shouldn't it be consistent? Solutions: This problem could not be duplicated in the 8/20 release. The speller will look for swapped letters (ex. "ntoe" for "note"), a letter longer (ex. "notey"), a letter shorter (ex. "non: for "none"), and the same length (ex. "notb" for "note"). The only situation we fail to find is if the first letter is different in the word you are looking for (ex. "bote" for "note"). In this case we bring up only words beginning with "B." This is because we are a phonetic speller, and it is a limitation of the program.

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