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- Lesson 10
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- PERFECT SPELLER
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- You now know how to create, revise, and print a document.
- Perfect Speller will help you in this process, by checking the
- spelling of the words in your document. Perfect Speller contains
- an equivalent 50,000 word dictionary which is used in determining
- whether the words in your document are misspelled. You may add
- words to Perfect Speller's dictionary so that it will include
- special words or terms that you use often, but which did not
- originally come in the dictionary. Also, many specialized
- dictionaries are available to meet particular needs, such as
- legal and medical dictionaries, and foreign language dictionaries.
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- This lesson will teach you how to use Perfect Speller by
- having you check the spelling of this lesson, in which several
- words have been deliberately misspelled. This will be
- accompanied by instructions describing the features of Perfect
- Speller.
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- The steps for using Perfect Speller are simple. We will
- outline them first, because when you select the command to begin
- the spelling check, Perfect Speller will erase the screen, and
- you will be unable to continue reading this lesson. Therefore,
- read this next section carefully, because it will be unavailable
- once Perfect Speller begins running. It may be a good idea to
- take a few notes. You may also wish to refer to your Perfect
- Writer/Perfect Speller User's Guide.
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- Here are the steps for using Perfect Speller (Don't begin them
- yet!):
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- 1) Select: Escape...Operations...Mode...Spell...Run speller
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- 2) Perfect Writer will ask: "Document to spell:". Press
- the Return key to check the current document.
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- 3) Perfect Writer will ask you to insert your Perfect
- Speller diskette, which will then begin comparing each word of
- your document with the entries in the Perfect Speller dictionary.
- It will report the number of words it did not find in its
- dictionary. For example:
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- 824 words processed. 4 words not recognized
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- 4) Perfect Speller will then ask if you would like to
- review the list of words it did not recognize:
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- Scan list of unrecognized words now <Yes>?
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- For this lesson, answer `n' for no.
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- 5) Perfect Speller will then mark the words in the lesson
- that it did not find in its dictionary. It will place a slash (/)
- before each word that it did not recognize. Don't worry, these
- markings will not be permanent. Following this, Perfect Speller
- will ask:
- Exit directly to Perfect Writer?
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- Since you want to continue reading lesson 10, answer '∙' for
- yes to this question. Perfect Speller will return you to Perfect
- Writer to correct the spelling of the mismatched words.
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- NOTE: Your Perfect Speller diskette may contain copies of
- the Perfect Writer command files: PW.OVL, PW.COM, and PW.SWP.
- However, if it does not, Perfect Speller will ask you to reinsert
- your Perfect Writer Edit diskette and type any key to continue.
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- When you re-enter Perfect Writer, the cursor will be
- positioned at the first mismatched word. A menu will be displayed
- indicating your options in relation to that word. The first few
- words you encounter will be ones that Speller did not recognize,
- although they are correctly spelled. From the menu, select `I'
- to `Ignore' them.
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- To make sure that you understand these steps, you may wish
- to scroll back and read them again, since the lesson will
- disappear when the spelling check begins. When you are ready,
- select:
- Escape...Operation...Mode...Spell...Run speller
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- When asked, "Document to spell:" press the Return key.
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- Mispell! Finally, you have reached a word that is really
- misspelled, and not simply missing from the
- dictionary. Notice that the word occurs again at
- the bottom of the screen (where it is marked
- with the symbol `/ ').
- Select `c' from the menu to change the
- spelling of the word. Enter the correct spelling:
- "Misspell." Be sure to capitalize. Then press
- the Escape key.
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- Mispell
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- When you change the spelling of a word once, Perfect Speller
- changes the spelling for every occurrence. However, notice that
- Perfect Speller did not change this mismatched word:
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- mispell
- That's because here the word is not
- capitalized.
- Perfect Speller recognizes that
- it is mismatched, but does not equate
- it with the capitalized version, a
- feature that allows it to recognize
- the misspelling of proper nouns
- when the only error is the lack of
- capitalization.
- At any rate, you need to change
- this word too. Select `c' for change.
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- Sometimes you will find yourself having to make frequent use
- of a word that is not in Perfect Speller's dictionary. When that
- happens, it makes sense to add that word to the dictionary. For
- example, if your last name were `Beethoven', you would want to
- have it in your dictionary. Perfect Speller allows you to add
- words to its dictionary.
- The command to do this is
- `a' for add. Be sure there
- is enough space on your
- Perfect Speller diskette
- so that Perfect Speller can
- store a backup version of
- your old dictionary. For
- `Beethoven', select `i' to
- Ignore.
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- At this time select:
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- Escape...Document...Read
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- When asked, "Document to Read:", enter: b:part2
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