MS Word’s grammar check, besides being flat-out wrong a lot of the time, leaves a great deal to be desired. For instance, while you can turn it off and only check spelling, you can’t do the opposite and only check for grammatical mistakes. There’s also no auto-correct for grammar; while you can ignore or change all instances of a something that’s spelled incorrectly, you have to click “Change” for each instance of a mistake in grammar. (There’s an “Ignore Rule” option, but that’s hardly the same thing, and it’s useless when what you’re looking to do is accept all of the program’s suggestions.)
I have several documents with extra spaces between many of the words. If I had to guess, I’d say there are at least 2,000 extra spaces that need to be deleted. Word recognizes each of these as grammatical mistakes and offers to fix them, but not all at once — which, to me, seems like something the software could be easily tweaked to allow. I’m not a designer, obviously, so I can’t say that this software could be easily tweaked. I’m just saying that there doesn’t seem to be a sensible reason for not tweaking it. Why can’t grammar-check be at least as effective as spell-check?
Oh, and typing ctrl-H to replace all the two-spaces with ones isn’t going to work either. I have two-spaces, between sentences, that I need to keep. So I’m stuck with the tedious option of changing each individually.