You know you're typing up a document that is loaded with a lot of acronyms and jargon if you look at it and it is mostly covered in the red squiggly lines but it is 100% right.
You might also feel that you're wasting your time if you're not going to bother to add most of the terms to the custom dictionary.
That's been my afternoon so far.
I did my engineering capstone project/huge paper in Nanowire Synthesis Process Development with Chemical Vapor Deposition...
I know EXACTLY what your talking about.
The squiggles have deemed you are incorrect.
Add them to your dictionary.
Remember to add even more "words" and alternate spellings before you leave their employ. 
Spell check and "add to dictionary". If it's like my computer at work it won't remember what you added the next time you type it.
I love technology.
slantvaliant wrote: Remember to add even more "words" and alternate spellings before you leave their employ.
You can have some good ol' fashioned fun with this one when coworkers forget to lock their computers...
In MS Word 2010, go to File --> Options --> Proofing --> AutoCorrect Options --> AutoCorrect Tab --> Then mark the "Replace text as you type" checkbox , and start editing the grid below it...
Even after adding CNA to Word's dictionary, I still had to set the replace word CNA to replace it with CNA, because it was replacing it with CAN, and I couldn't prevent autocorrect from running, no matter what setting I was disabling. At least my iPad knows I mean to type something the way I do if I keep retyping it my way.
Last I knew, you could have Word ignore things that are in all caps. If abbreviations are your problem, that's the simplest solution.
barrowcadbury wrote:slantvaliant wrote: Remember to add even more "words" and alternate spellings before you leave their employ.You can have some good ol' fashioned fun with this one when coworkers forget to lock their computers... In MS Word 2010, go to File --> Options --> Proofing --> AutoCorrect Options --> AutoCorrect Tab --> Then mark the "Replace text as you type" checkbox , and start editing the grid below it...
That is just evil
Just in case you haven't seen it:
Slightly NSFW -- no nudity but some language is mildy colourful.
It's not Word, but my spell-check annoyance of the week is my phone.
Not only does it assume that I meant to use a correctly-spelled word, it will frequently decide I meant to use a more-common word, even though it recognizes the word I typed (without typos) as a proper word.
I have not yet found a way to make it stop.
In reply to Alan Cesar:
Despite the fact it is a first world problem, it didn't make it feel like any less of a waste of time.
As I said, the task I was put on was so throw-away, I didn't feel it worth my time to add anything to the dictionary or otherwise mark any of the things I was typing as worth saving.
That is really the real meat of my complaint, and yes, it is another first world problem, but nonetheless quite it is quite annoying.
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