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Old 09-19-2014, 04:46 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by mikefulton View Post
OK, I've tried what you suggested, and while it works, it's horribly, horribly slow. Hardly any better than simply reading through and editing the text.

The main issue is that you have to manually select the replacement for every unique occurrence.
I suspect my hyphenation problems are not as severe as yours, when Kovid added the 'smart' to offer the de-hyphenated word as the first replacement choice (assuming it is not a misspelling) that fixed a huge number of errors in some 'books' I was working on at the time.

Re the list of hyphenated words, I use it to spot erroneous hyphenations - eg bank-ruptures is not a misspelling but its probably wrong. I paste erroneous hyphenations into my clipboard. Once I've scanned the hyphenated word list I deal with the erroneous sublist I created in my clipboard with regular S&R.

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