[mso] Re: Edit the Grammar checker

Thanks James and David.

I accept that there are different views on what is right.  The question is,
can I edit the rules used?



Best Regards
 
David Grugeon
Grugeon Consulting
(07) 3263 7786

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> Hi all
> Does anyone know how to edit the rules in the grammar checker in word?
> Mine insists that
> training organisation staff contact employers regularly
> should be
> training organisation staff contacts employers regularly
> In Australian English the word staff means "The people who work for an
> organisation." And it is quite acceptable - even normal - to treat it as a
> plural, like the word people
> Word has no problem with
> training organisation people contact employers regularly
> Is there any way I can change the definition of the word "staff" in the
> grammar checker?  I do not want to scrap the number agreement rule
> completely, just correct its error permanently.
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> 
> This is one of those, "depends" rules.
> 
>  It is relatively easy to envision sentences where "staff" is singular,
and
> other sentences where it is plural.
> 
> And that doesn't even take into account the fact that "staff" doesn't
always
> mean people. It could mean "pole".
> 
> 
> James S. Huggins
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