I appreciate the new spell checker available in Pending, Create & Inventory, etc., but it is sooooo tedious & inefficient!! Mainly for those of us using the same exact wording for all our auctions. Every time I do a spell check on say, an item in "Pending" that I have just done lots of editing on, up comes all the words I have already used the "ADD" button on a million times before in a million other items, i.e., eBay member's names that are not real words (I list lots of feedbacks within my auctions), or slang, etc., even words that are common but not in Vendio's dictionary, like "agapanthus", which is a plant.
So if the word comes up in spell checker & I "ADD" it, why isn't it added to my dictionary?? And since it is not adding it to my dictionary, what exactly is its function? Why do I have to go into "Manage your personal directory" to "ADD" it? Why even have an "ADD" option in the first page of the spell check if it, in fact, doesn't "ADD" it to your dictionary? It essentially does the same thing as "IGNORE" does! The only difference I can see between the two, is if you "ADD" it, it changes to blue, if you "IGNORE" it, it changes to black. Big whoop. Who cares about that?
Also, if I DO take the time to enter say, a member's name of "ggdhb1" into the "Manage your...", & then go into a completely different item & do a spell-check on it, the word "ggdhb1" STILL comes up as misspelled! Even if I go into "Manage your..." AGAIN & look to see if it was INDEED added to my dictionary when I was in the previous item, I do see it in the list of my words, so WHY then is it coming up as a misspelled word in this item?
So, since the "ADD" option on the first page of spell-check doesn't "add" the word to your own dictionary & you DO decide to dedicate every minute of the rest of your going into "Manage your..." and adding a new word every time the spell-check doesn't recognize it, when that new added word STILL isn't going to be recognized in any other items you run a spell-check on in the future, you STILL won't get anywhere! What would be the point? Or is there something in your spell-check process I am missing entirely?
PLEASE ADVISE.
[ edited by Biffette on Apr 25, 2004 05:22 PM ]
There does appear to be an error with the 'Add' function, however I was unable to replicate the error you mention where the spell checker will stop on a word that has actually been added to the personal dictionary. If you have any examples of this this, please let us know so we may test that specific aspect of this further.
posted on May 1, 2004 01:57:15 PM new
Huh??? If you can indeed see an error in the "ADD" function, why then do I have to provide you an example of it???
Geeeezzz....Go to page 2 in my "Pending" list to the item I titled "SPELL CHECK PROBLEM #1". I have already run a spell-check on it & added all the words it pulled up by not only using the "ADD" on the spell-check screen but also by going in to "Manage your..." & adding them there too. I was also sure to "Save" it when I was done. Go ahead & run the spell-check on it yourself, you'll see that it is still selecting a bunch of words, right? OK, as each word gets selected, select the "Manage your..." link & you will indeed find that very word in the "Current Words" window of the personal dictionary. You can add it until the cows come home & spell-check will continue to select it every time.
Also, while in "Manage Your..." , if you type in to the "ADD" field any word that requires having its 1st letter to be capitalized, the dictionary will add it but changes the 1st letter to lower case. It WILL NOT add it as beginning with a capital letter! How ridiculous is that? We need to be able to add words that are only correct when capitalized, such as proper names, etc. But even if you do go ahead & add it without a capital first letter, thinking spell-check will be flexible enough to recognize the word next time, capitalized or not - IT WON'T! Spell-check will still select it every time because it can't recognize it spelled with a capitalized first letter! I guess it doesn't matter anyway since even if you COULD manage to add it as capitalized, spell-check will STILL select it every time anyway, even though it shows up in the "Current Words" list....
Another problem: you can't "ADD" a compound word in "Manage your...". Example is a plant name of "Arundo Donax". Spell-check selects each word separately but they are never used as separate words, so rather than add "Arundo" & then add "Donax", I typed "Arundo Donax" into the "ADD" field in "Manage your...", but a window opens up saying "Invalid word" & doesn't allow me to enter it at all! WHAT A PAIN
ANOTHER PROBLEM: In spell-check, when it selects a word & offers other words in the "Suggestion" box - they are not listed alphabetically!!! So, you end up hunting through the whole jumbled list of suggestions to find the correct spelling! In trying to make sense of the list I thought maybe it begins at the top with what spell-check thinks is the most logical replacement & each successive word being a less & less logical replacement. If so, then not only is it REALLY off in its logic (just take a look at the list sometime), but even if it were correct in its logic, it is not an efficient way to correct spelling! The best way is to begin with offering the closest & most OBVIOUS alternative spellings beginning with the first 1 or 2 letters & not by going through a jumbled, un-alphabetized list of words some stranger guessed up for what you must REALLY be trying to say.
JUST AN "ASIDE": What is a mystery to me is how spell-check apparently considers many, many words, like the plant name "Vinca", as not mundane enough or commonly used enough to include in its existing spell-check dictionary, however, it apparently DOES feel the following words ARE mundane enough & commonly used enough to not only include in the dictionary, but to also offer as logical replacements for the word "Vinca": Vin-ca, Vin ca, Vina, Bianca, Vin, Anica, Vinita, Vonda, Inga, Vino, Linc, Vang and Vania.
posted on May 1, 2004 05:55:21 PM new
Hello Biffette,
We apologize for the troubles you are having with the dictionary. I am forwarding your feedback along to Product Development, for future changes regarding the dictionary.
Wait a minute!! Are you telling me these problems are actually the way the dictionary & spell-check are SUPPOSED to work???? And that none of the issues I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly writing all out for you in painful detail that Christopher ASKED me to do in order to FIX them, are not/will not be considered dysfunctions, but simply casual suggestions somebody probably won't ever even look at when they get around to "developing" the "product" sometime in the "future"?
What about the error Christopher said he noticed on 4/26? Is that too really NOT an error or dysfunction needing repair but actually merely a suggestion Christopher found that will be "forwarded to Product Development, for future changes"?
COME ON! It's been a very long time since I have been to these boards and I thought by now, all those old, lame, canned responses with the dismissive tone, that you guys constantly used years ago would have been replaced by responsible, thought out, actual ANSWERS.
