Spell Checking Uppercase Words

Word includes a powerful spell-checker that, in reality, does a pretty good job. If you do quite a bit of technical writing and use a lot of acronyms, you know that most of them are easily flagged as misspelled words. You can make sure that Word ignores uppercase words in any spell-check by following these steps:

1. Choose Options from the Tools menu. Word displays the Options dialog box.
2. Make sure the Spelling & Grammar tab is selected in Word 97 and later versions. (Click here to see a related figure.) For Word 6 and Word 95 the Spelling tab should be selected. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. Make sure the Words in UPPERCASE checkbox (Word 6 and Word 95) or the Ignore Words in UPPERCASE check box (Word 97 and later versions) is selected.
4. Click on OK.

The only downside to this, of course, is if you use all uppercase for section titles or for other special words. In this case, Word still ignores them, since they are uppercase. Make sure you change the setting of this check box based on the type of work you are doing in your current document.