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[llywela]

Dear Microsoft Word,

'Any' and 'more' are two separate words. Using them as such, even alongside one another in the same sentence, is perfectly correct - a darn sight more correct, in fact, than amalgamating them into a single word, as you would have me do in every single instance. Therefore your constant insistence that any more be conflated into anymore is simply not funny any more.

Yours, in deep exasperation,

Frustrated User

Comments

[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

Can you fix this in AUTO CORRECT ... been a long time since I used that side of MW ... but you maybe able to do something there. Google for a solution.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Nope, it won't turn off! Stupid Microsoft. Grr.

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

I know!!!!!! It seems to be a US copyediting trend and it's utter shite. Not just anymore. Anytime. Ahold. Utter, utterly, cockup ignorance. Drives me nuts.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Anymore is the one that crops up the most for me, and it drives me mad. Stupid Microsoft. Not everyone wants to write lazily and American common expressions/spellings are not the norm elsewhere - let us write and spell our own way, properly, thank you very much! Grr.

[francy-m79.livejournal.com]

LOL

Smart phones are the worst when it comes to autocorrect, though!!!

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Technology is not as clever as it thinks it is!

Autocorrect is a bloomin' nuisance, but at least it can be turned off (in Word). Those stupid squiggly lines that tell you your grammar is wrong when you know damn well that it isn't, those are the real bugbear!

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, the fights I've had with MS Word and it's instance on defaulting to US English despite all instructions to the contrary.

However, I seem to have the opposite problem with 'any more'(I didn't actually realise I shouldn't be sticking them together (in some instances).

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I feel that one of the problems may be that although Word has UK English as an option, the programmers responsible for that option aren't actually 100% familiar with the differences between UK and US English...

Because yes, any and more are two separate words and should be used as such, not stuck together.

[ehlwyen.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with new versions of Word. I like my old one and whenever a good program is updated it always seems to lose functionality rather than gain anything worthwhile. :(

On my version, I would try to manually go into the dictionary source it checks and delete the offending word. Also I would try creating autocorrect entries so when "anymore", "any more", or an abbreviation like "aaaa" is written it would change it to "any more."

I am disappointed to hear there is no way to turn off the spellcheck that automatically replaces the words. :(

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Lyn!

Alas, the problem isn't that Word automatically corrects the word, it's that it brings up squiggly little lines telling me the grammar is wrong every single time and I can't find a way to turn that off without also turning off the rest of the grammar check, which mostly works ok (although I take issue with it on a few other points, as well). So adding the phrase to the dictionary won't help and I must just learn to live with the squiggly lines, I fear!

[ehlwyen.livejournal.com]

I hate those squiggle lines!!!! *shakes fist* I get rid of those on every computer i use as soon as I can find which check box hides them! LOL!I guess it started when in college, my papers were all scientific related so basically it underlined everything. My version allows those to go away by selecting "Tools" then "Options" and then deselecting the "Check spelling as you type" box. You might also deselect the "check grammar as you type" box. It's can be nice to have a back up to spot errors, but those squiggly lines are so judgy and a bit hostile!

*HUGS*

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

I have an older version of Word, so I don't know if this still holds true, but if the first time this comes up, you right click the phrase and tell it to ignore all, Word will not do it again in that document. I don't know if it will hold over to new documents, but you should be clear with whatever document you are currently working on.

[kelzies.livejournal.com]

Ah, Word. How it likes to think it knows all. The helper dude is annoying too. with his "looks like you're writing a letter. Do you need help with that?" NO.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I thought there was a way to make an exception so it stops doing that...

But in American English at least "anymore" is perfectly correct, but it has a different usage than "any more"--like, "he won't be coming around to visit anymore" as opposed to "any more sweets and I will burst".

[femsc.livejournal.com]

But don't those two examples mean the same thing? I'd never heard of 'anymore' as one word until now, and I don't like it. Notatall. Which is three words but I'm in a sillymood.