It appears as though Microsoft is coming to the rescue again! Not only will Microsoft Office have spell check with the red squiggly, and grammar check with the green squiggly, it was also have a new blue squiggly! The new blue squiggly is being labeled as contextual spelling check. This feature will check words with the context of the sentence to ensure that each word in the sentence makes sense. We have all been in a situation where spellcheck misses a mistake simply because the word was not spelled wrong, but used in the wrong context.
We rely on spell check to do its job and catch all of our mistakes. Unfortunately the English language is filled with homonyms; the words that sound the same, but have a different meaning. For example, it is easy to mistakenly use the word “by” inccorectly. Afterall, there are three appropriate spellings and meanings of this word, however they all sound the same. There is buy — to purchase, by– meaning near, and finally bye– to bid farewell. The new Microscoft Office will be checking the context of the sentence to ensure that we use the correct word for the context. This will be a great addition to Microsoft Office!
News Source: CorrecteurOrthographiqueOffice
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is this a new beta release or something?
either this isn’t included in Office 2007 Professional Beta 2, or it doesn’t work very well. But when it works, this will be much closer to what most people assume spell check to actually be. Of course, one will also have to be able to form a normal sentence before Word can recognize the context of the word, so this new feature may not work for the majority of people…
I am sure this is a new feature and will be included with future releases.
-Ryan
It is included in Beta 2, but on machines with less than 1Gb of memory it is disabled by default.
To check it is on, go into Winword Options, Proofing, Use Contextual spelling