Sometimes I send code (or stack traces) via email (Outlook) and it's very annoying to see the red spell check squigglies. What's the best way to deal with this?
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You can turn off spell checking for specific sections of text, such as code. These instructions are for Outlook 2013.
- Select the text for which you want spell checking turned off
- Display the Review tab of the ribbon
- Click on Language then Set Proofing Language
- The Language dialog box pops up
- Select Do not check spelling or grammar
- Click on OK
This removes the red squiggly lines from your code, but keeps checking spelling for the rest of your document.
1Found this and had to share since I accidentally turned it on and it was difficult to find again later after I realized how annoying it was.
The easiest way would be to add those words to your dictionary.
- Open a mail message.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Options.
- Click Mail, click Spelling and Autocorrect, and then click Proofing.
- Make sure the Suggest from main dictionary only check box is cleared.
- Click Custom Dictionaries.
- In the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, for any custom dictionaries you want to use, make sure the check box next to each of those dictionaries is selected.
I'm sure you could easily enough build a script to generate the dictionary programmatically before you import it.
2So I've found that if you click Cancel on the spell check dialog, I get a message that says "We haven't finished checking your spelling, send anyway?". If you select Yes, you will send the email with out it checking the rest of the document for spelling errors.
This is as close as I can see to the "Send as is" option in other mail clients that ignore spelling for the rest of the document.
It doesn't take away the red lines, but at least it lets you send with out having to ignore every error.
Easiest way to fix this is to create a new style the turn on "Do not check spelling or grammar" in the Language Pull Down
Select all test using Ctrl+A Then Alt+U+U+R+L and then enter.
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