Windows 10: Word 365 Spell Check inconsistent

I'm proofing a document that was scanned & OCR'd. When I click 'ignore all' on a name it appears to work properly-but after a dozen pages or so I notice that the name is again marked as misspelled. The earlier occurrences are still ignored-and to all appearances the name is spelled the same, including capitalization (not sure whether or not that matters so I check it). Any idea what's going on?

Also, in many cases Word seems to ignore 'partial' words, particularly if they're single letters. "his own s" is an example. The scanning/OCR missed 'hand' before the s-but that's not my issue. My issue is why Word thinks 's' is a properly spelled word? I know there's a setting to tell it to ignore words with numbers (which I've unchecked-OCR too often confuses 'l' with '1') but I can't find a similar setting to uncheck so it will flag words with symbols as misspelled. Or would that result in every word at the end of a sentence, or preceding a comma, being flagged? Maybe just flag words that have symbols in the middle of the word-but that's probably too much to ask.

So let's get back to my basic question-is there a setting to tell word to check words that consist of individual letters?
Thanks.

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Word 365 Spell Check inconsistent

I'm proofing a document that was scanned & OCR'd. When I click 'ignore all' on a name it appears to work properly-but after a dozen pages or so I notice that the name is again marked as misspelled. The earlier occurrences are still ignored-and to all appearances the name is spelled the same, including capitalization (not sure whether or not that matters so I check it). Any idea what's going on?

Also, in many cases Word seems to ignore 'partial' words, particularly if they're single letters. "his own s" is an example. The scanning/OCR missed 'hand' before the s-but that's not my issue. My issue is why Word thinks 's' is a properly spelled word? I know there's a setting to tell it to ignore words with numbers (which I've unchecked-OCR too often confuses 'l' with '1') but I can't find a similar setting to uncheck so it will flag words with symbols as misspelled. Or would that result in every word at the end of a sentence, or preceding a comma, being flagged? Maybe just flag words that have symbols in the middle of the word-but that's probably too much to ask.

So let's get back to my basic question-is there a setting to tell word to check words that consist of individual letters?
Thanks.

 

How to get Windows 10 to spell check uppercase words.

Hi Apheration and welcome to Ten Forums

My spell checker works for me. And on words with caps on, too. My setting is default (although I have second language installed).
We can go step by step from settings (check language, if spelling language is installed, then Keyboard (under devices) if spell is enabled.

 

Spell Checker not working in Mail or Word Windows 10

The spelling checker is working in my Windows 10 Mail, and gives suggest corrections in a list, but there is no ADD function shown, to add the word to a custom dictionary. Office 365 Spell checker has this capability and saves the 'new' word to 'custom.dic'
and 'roamingdefault.dic. Mail seems to have this function, as the 'misspelt' word is at the bottom of the suggested alternatives but with a + in front of it. I assume this will then add it to a Mail custom dictionary but I can find no reference to what its
file name is or where is it located, so I cannot go and edit it, which I can do with the Office 365 dictionary.

Regards,

Ed