Checking the spelling

Click the Spell button image\spell.gif to begin checking the spelling of the active document (including any text in headers and footers). Alternatively, select the Spelling command from the Tools menu.

Note: To limit the spell check, select the text you want to check first.

When the spell-checker comes across a word it does not recognize, the "Spelling" dialog box is displayed.

The unrecognized word is shown in the Suggestion for box, and the reason for the query (e.g. word not found, or word doubled) is given next to it.

The closest replacement (if any can be found) is given in the Change To box. To accept this suggestion, click on the Change button.

To see other suggestions, click on the Suggest button (which will be grayed out if there are no other suggestions). To choose one of these other suggestions, click on it and then on the Change button.

To delete the word from the document (for instance, if it is a doubled word), delete the text from the Change To box and click on the Change button.

There are several other buttons you can use:

If you don’t begin the spelling check at the beginning of the document, Write checks all the way to the end and then asks if you want to check the spelling from the beginning. Click on the OK button to continue checking, or on the Cancel button to end the check.