haha, i know. it was the only interesting bit mind. my dad turns Friends off to watch bloody Tennis, lol.
tell me about it. he comes home form work and says "no Friends, no Scrubs and no Eight Simple Rules!" they are all of my fanourite programmes and he doesn't like Emmerdale or Corination Street, although when it is on he sits and constanlty asks who is who, lol.
When you go to Tools>Options>Spelling & Grammar it says "Writing Style:" near the bottom right. Which one is best to have it as? Casual, Standard, Formal, or Technical?
Well, I imagine you must have a version later than my own (Word XP). If you're planning on writing a story with the program, I would probably suggest Standard. Choosing casual writing would probably have the spelling and grammar checker be a lot more lax when going over your documents. Formal writing is probably best for when writing essays. An explanation of Technical Writing However, as I don't actually have access to the options myself, you should play with them and read up on Microsoft's definitions to see which best suits your needs.
I wouldn't put a lot of faith into Word's grammar checking in any case. Orobably the best choice is to experiment with the levels so the number of places it flags is manageable for you, and evealuate each one for appropriateness before changing it. From what I've seen, it gets confused a lot of the time.
Mine hasn't steered me wrong; even taught me about passive sentences. Of course it's not perfect (designed by Micro$oft after all), but it can be a source of help in the editing department.
