I'm proofing a document that was scanned & OCR'd. When I click 'ignore all' on a name it appears to work properly-but after a dozen pages or so I notice that the name is again marked as misspelled. The earlier occurrences are still ignored-and to all appearances the name is spelled the same, including capitalization (not sure whether or not that matters so I check it). Any idea what's going on?

Also, in many cases Word seems to ignore 'partial' words, particularly if they're single letters. "his own s" is an example. The scanning/OCR missed 'hand' before the s-but that's not my issue. My issue is why Word thinks 's' is a properly spelled word? I know there's a setting to tell it to ignore words with numbers (which I've unchecked-OCR too often confuses 'l' with '1') but I can't find a similar setting to uncheck so it will flag words with symbols as misspelled. Or would that result in every word at the end of a sentence, or preceding a comma, being flagged? Maybe just flag words that have symbols in the middle of the word-but that's probably too much to ask.

So let's get back to my basic question-is there a setting to tell word to check words that consist of individual letters?
Thanks.