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Subject:RE: MS Word readability index From:"Elayne" <sandahl -at- rogers -dot- com> To:"'VERKERKEN Wouter'" <Wouter -dot- VERKERKEN -at- swift -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:04:14 -0400
Yes, it happens to me. I'm thinking it may have something to do with
language choices. As in, I am using the U.S. version of the software
with English Canada and French Canadian language choices. I haven't
noticed what choices are made when I do a readability score and either
get one or not. And I know nothing Microsoft has ever created is smart
enough to take a document with English Canada language settings and run
it for readability against a U.S. dictionary/grammar function.
I'll test and let you know.
Elayne
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Subject: MS Word readability index
Hi all,
Anyone =ver used the readability index feature (Flesch score
etc.) and found that it seems to =ork on some documents, but not
on other? I mean: on some documents you get the =ndex, and on
some documents you don't, while you have requested it in exactly =he
same way. Weird.
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