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Wife having problems with boss over Macs
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I hope someone here can help us soon. My wife has bought a 12" Powerbook for her mobile computer which she uses alot. Her boss wanted her to buy a PC but relented after her assurances over compatabilty issues etc. All has been good except one thing. One thing that I just can't figure out and which is making my wife's boss extremely p*ssed off.
My wife and her boss send word documents back and forth to each other many times a day. Whenever my wife sends a doc to her boss she gets a verbal lashing because certain mistakes that HIS PC version of word has picked up slipped by her computer.
For example, a simple example. In a Word document opened on a PC "the their" is underlined as it should be for being incorrect grammer, but on her 12"Powerbook as well as her eMac "the their" is not underlined or otherwise pointed out by Word as being incorrect.
I've done just about all that I can think of to fix this issue. I've checkmarked all settings that should affect grammer so basically if one were to cough a grammer error window would pop up but I CANNOT get WORD X or WORD 04 for her macs to underline a simple error such as "the their".
I've messed with it for hours and cannot make it happen. Any help WILL be appreciated.
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Preferences -> Spelling and Grammar. Put checks next to "Check Grammar as you Type", "Check grammar with spelling", and "Show readability statistics." And make sure the Writing Style is set to Technical.
That should work for you.
Chris
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Last edited by chabig; Jun 21, 2004 at 09:00 PM.
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I just had to ask. I am assuming this is a computer that the company bought for her? If not, even if it was a portion, but not all of it. I'd tell "him" to stuff it. Of course if the company paid for it, then good for her staying on the Mac platform. I really sounds like a setting thing with the grammar. Good luck to your wife.
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It shows incorrect grammar when I typed in "the their" on my Word X. Don't know what the problem is?
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I just did some testing with 'the their' and grammar only caught it in certain circumstances. 
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Doesn't your wife proof read the documents she sends to her boss? Basically, he's picking up grammar errors that your wife didn't? Or am I not understanding your problem right?
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How might you use "the their" in a sentence? I can't work out what it's supposed to mean.
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Glad to see that people caught on that it's grammAr and not grammEr. 
I got the underlines fine using Word 2004. Just a matter of settings. And she should use the compatibility report if she's using Word 2004.
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It's a laptop right?
She should take it into his office and they should pop up word on both computers and go thorough all the settings together. Sync the settings up. Take less than 5 minutes.
Or, as the secret society of mac users, we could all get together and make him... disappear. 
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Originally posted by Thinine:
Doesn't your wife proof read the documents she sends to her boss? Basically, he's picking up grammar errors that your wife didn't? Or am I not understanding your problem right?
I don't think this is a computer platform issue...
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She needs to proof her documents. Relying on the grammar checker isn't reliable--a lot of stuff slips through.
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You heard me! Sod off, Sadr!
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