If Word flags a correctly typed word as misspelled, typically when you unmisspell it the first time, Word leaves you alone.
I'm working on a manuscript that includes the abbreviation (or acronym or initialism; I don't keep them straight) IHS. I've got to fool this damn software into thinking I'm typing something else, because it keeps reverting back to HIS. Maybe this has to do with ignoring all caps in spell checks, although I can't recall how I'm clicked there.
Of course, I could leave HIS all caps and simply replace it later. I might do that.
But did you know that Word's dictionary -- at least none I've come across -- has "lynching" in it? And that Word's contextual spell-checker always flags "centuries" as possibly wrong? Do you know why? Hmm? Well, do ya?
The simple answer is that they should stick to ones and zeroes and stay offa my lawn.
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