Double Words

[Charles]

One of my worst habits is leaving double words in the text when I edit. I do do it it all all the the time time it it seems seems.

So in OpenOffice, this is the search string that will pull up double words using ctrl+f:

\b(\w+)\s+\1\b

I am trying to figure out how to do this for those that use Word, but am having no luck. Anyone?

[G.G.]

AH I don't use openOffice but thanks for the trick. I know this should help a lot of people. :)

In Word, mine always underline the second word. I'd be more worried to leave words like 'the' when you change things like the man for 'he'.

[Martin]

I have the MSWord plug-in for Grammarly. That flags double words.

[Quoleena]

When I do that in Word, it underlines the repeat in red, like it does with incorrect spellings. I'm using Word 2010. Which version do you have?

[Charles]

Nice. That's why I couldn't find out much about it. There's probably a plug in that does the same for OpenOffice.

[Dwayne, Head of Lettuce]

My spell check catches my double words. Which can be a blessing. And a curse. When editing a novel that takes place at Christmas time, the spell check likes to stop and point at every "ho ho ho" and "fa la la la la".

[G.G.]

Dwayne wrote: "My spell check catches my double words. Which can be a blessing. And a curse. When editing a novel that takes place at Christmas time, the spell check likes to stop and point at every "ho ho ho" an..."

lol

[Micah]

Dwayne wrote: "My spell check catches my double words. Which can be a blessing. And a curse. When editing a novel that takes place at Christmas time, the spell check likes to stop and point at every "ho ho ho" an..."

However it won't flag ho-ho-ho or fa-la-la or even now, now, now.

Punctuation is magical.

[Micah]

I have more trouble with homonyms.

I don't have trouble usually with classics like to, too, and two ore there, their, and they're ... but some others I have trouble with **cough**

[Charles]

When you're dealing with as many made up words as I do, you end up blocking out the squiggly red lines 99% of the time.

[G.G.]

Ever thought about adding them to your personal dictionary? That's what I did for names, foreign words (my protagonist is from another planet), and other oddities like ain't, gonna, etc for dialogues.

[Charles]

i think i tried that and it didn't stick

[G.G.]

Strange...mine does.

[Christina]

There's all kinds of advanced settings you can enable and disable in Word's spell check, so you can set it to specifically pick up the double words. There's also an advanced filter tab on the find tool as well.

[[deleted user]]

One of the most annoying to keep fixing is things like "...that she had had once before."