When you check the spelling and grammar of your document, Word keeps track of which errors you choose to ignore. Even if you later go through a grammar and spell check again, Word still remembers your earlier decisions, and it can affect the current check you are doing.
At some point you may want to toss out your earlier decisions and recheck the document from scratch. You can do so by following these steps:
Figure 1. The proofing options of the Word Options dialog box.
At this point it may not look like anything has changed in your document. However, if you do a grammar and spell check (press F7) you will find that Word once again questions everything it thinks is wrong in your document.
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