Strange Delineation of Sentences

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TT - 08 Apr 2005 18:57 GMT

Consider the a document containing only:
John Doe, Ph.D., is a scientist.

As expected, "ActiveDocument.Words(1).Text" return "John". However,
"ActiveDocument.Sentences(1).Text" returns "," and the second sentence is
returned as "is a scientist".

Is this a bug? Am I missing something here?

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Word Heretic - 10 Apr 2005 23:05 GMT

G'day "TT" <tomtatham@comcast.net>,

Correct, Word's native parsing does not handle sentences properly and
assumes a period is always a terminator.

Thus, Would Dr. T. Smith come at 10.00 for 15.6 minutes causes total
havoc.

I think I ended up doing 9 specific tests to ensure end of sentence
conditions.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice

TT reckoned:

>Consider the a document containing only:
>John Doe, Ph.D., is a scientist.
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
>Is this a bug? Am I missing something here?

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