Mr. Pedantic
Diamond Member
While writing my notes for one of my courses, I typed in this sentence:
"The dimers autophosphorylate".
Word doesn't recognize the word "autophosphorylate". Which is fine. However, when I add it to the dictionary, the spell-check still identifies it as a 'fragment', because it apparently doesn't have a verb. Except a ten year old could probably recognize that "autophosphorylate" is a verb.
HOWEVER...
When I change the sentence to "The dimers phosphorylate each other", Word does not recognize the word "phosphorylate". Which, again, is fine. However, the sentence is no longer a fragment? What happened? Did Word suddenly start taking "phosphorylate" as a verb, even though "autophosphorylate" isn't? What's going on?
So, in order to justify this rant as more than just a venting of my frustration at Microsoft, I have a question. Is there an add-in to Office which allows you to not only add in words to the dictionary, but also assign them to parts of speech as well? Seeing as Microsoft has taken it upon itself to integrate the spell-check and grammar correction, I would have thought such a feature would be vital.
"The dimers autophosphorylate".
Word doesn't recognize the word "autophosphorylate". Which is fine. However, when I add it to the dictionary, the spell-check still identifies it as a 'fragment', because it apparently doesn't have a verb. Except a ten year old could probably recognize that "autophosphorylate" is a verb.
HOWEVER...
When I change the sentence to "The dimers phosphorylate each other", Word does not recognize the word "phosphorylate". Which, again, is fine. However, the sentence is no longer a fragment? What happened? Did Word suddenly start taking "phosphorylate" as a verb, even though "autophosphorylate" isn't? What's going on?
So, in order to justify this rant as more than just a venting of my frustration at Microsoft, I have a question. Is there an add-in to Office which allows you to not only add in words to the dictionary, but also assign them to parts of speech as well? Seeing as Microsoft has taken it upon itself to integrate the spell-check and grammar correction, I would have thought such a feature would be vital.
