word document too large?

Question

I'm using Office 2019 on a document created many versions ago. This document is 197,088 words long, so far (533 pages). This is still too large for Word to mark spelling errors? Word has always marked grammatical 'questionables' in blue underlines, but stopped underlining in red with the 'spellcheck having a nervous breakdown' message, long ago...

Answer 1

I have done that, long ago, in the splellchecker (which works fine, by the way). I'm just kvetching because I had grown 'used to' the 'marked' typos...

Answer 2

It opens the spellchecker.

Answer 3

Here are instructions for creating a "do not check" character style:

Creating "No proofing" styles in Microsoft Word - No Spell Check character style and Code paragraph style - keep text from being checked for spelling or grammar

Answer 4

If you're writing something like fantasy fiction, with character names that wouldn't be recognized by the standard dictionary file, then it's possible to exceed the capacity of the Revisions collection. If that's the case, the solutions include adding the names to the custom dictionary or applying a "do not check" character style to the names (that can be done by Find/Replace).

http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/MasterSpellCheck.htm

Answer 5

I'm using Office 2019 on a document created many versions ago. This document is 197,088 words long, so far (533 pages). This is still too large for Word to mark spelling errors? Word has always marked grammatical 'questionables' in blue underlines, but stopped underlining in red with the 'spellcheck having a nervous breakdown' message, long ago...

A document of 200K words and 540 pages is not too large for Word to mark spelling. However, if formatted using direct formatting and with multiple words identified as spelling problems, it may be unwieldy.

What happens if you press the F7 key or tell Word under the Review tab to check spelling?