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Q&A Foreign words break spellchecking

I am writing a text with a lot of foreign words, and MS Word complained that there were too many ‘errors’ and stopped checking spelling. Is there a way to force spellchecking? (Short of creating a ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Mathieu Bouville‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T11:56:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/45276
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Mathieu Bouville‭ · 2019-12-08T11:56:02Z (about 5 years ago)
I am writing a text with a lot of foreign words, and MS Word complained that there were too many ‘errors’ and stopped checking spelling. Is there a way to force spellchecking? (Short of creating a separate style, which I do for entire sentences but which would be impractical for isolated words.) I have foreign words in italics; letting Word know that italics are off-limit would work.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-05-20T09:24:17Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 5