Word 97—Ease of Use

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Smarter Spelling

The linguistic research team gathered custom dictionaries from thousands of users to identify frequently used words that would be useful additions to the built in dictionary. As a result, Word has added thousands of new words and the spelling tools have evolved dramatically on two major fronts: 1) expansion of our built in dictionary to reflect common word usage, 2) increased sophistication of our typing recognition technology. Examples of word types that have been added are:

• Personal names of varying ethnicity such as Ahmed, Jose and commonly used company names from the Fortune 1000 list.
• All country names and names of US cities with a population of 30,000 or more.
• Current terminology - words that describe new industry and economic conditions like reengineering, downsizing.
• Computer related terms such as file name extensions, product names, technologies.

And, we are smarter about recognizing your typing patterns and not marking errors in your document:

• Words in uppercase and words containing numbers no longer get marked as misspellings.
• Word recognizes common word patterns such as URL’s for example http://www.microsoft.com, UNC’s for example \\server\sharename, and email addresses such as username@corporation.com.
• Word recognizes every word from your user name and your organization’s name and never flags them as misspellings in your documents.

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