Spelling
Checks the spelling in the selected text object.
Select your options for spell checking and click "OK". Once the program starts scanning your document and finds a misspelled word, it highlights this word in the document and places the most suitable correct word in the "Change To" field. Below the "Change To" field, the program lists other possible choices that may be used instead. If you like the word that the program has placed in the "Change To" field, simply click on the "Change" button and the misspelled word is replaced with the correct one.
If you want to use one of the other words in the list instead of the one the program has selected, click on the word that you want, then click on the "Change" button.
If the same word is misspelled in other parts of the document and you want all such words to be replaced with the word you have selected, click on the "Change All" button.
If you do not want to replace the word that the spell checker found and highlighted, click on the "Ignore" Button. If you want the program to ignore all other occurrences of the same word, click on the "Ignore All" button.
If you are not satisfied with the suggested list of possible word choices that the program lists, or if the program does not place any words in the list, you can click on the "Suggest" button and the program provides more possible words for you to choose from.
The program has several methods of finding alternate suggestions. Depending on method program can: look for common typing errors (Close Match), make the suggestions on the basis of how the word sounds (Phoneme) or the special method of suggestion for the scanned documents (OCR). The following are choices in the "Suggestion Method" list box:
You can also add your own set of words to the dictionary so that they are not be considered as misspelled next time you run the spell checker. To add a word to the dictionary, click on the "ADD" button. The word which is in the "Checked" field is added to the dictionary. You can use different dictionaries while spell checking your document. Click the pull down box below the "To Dictionary" to select the dictionary that you want.
The Spell Setting dialog box
When you click the "SETTINGS" button in the Spell Check dialog box, the "Spell Setting" dialog box is displayed. This dialog box enables you to set certain options for the Spelling checker. These options are:
- Current Dictionary: This enables you to select the dictionary of words you want the spell checker to use. A different dictionary of words may be pre-installed for you depending on the country where you bought this program. For example in the American version of the program, the default dictionary of words used is the optimized "USA.DCT" dictionary. The British version of this program will have the "UK.DCT" dictionary. Certain other dictionary options may also be available for you to purchase and use, such as "USA_BIG.DCT" which contains more words than the "USA.DCT". Using the USA_BIG.DCT gives you the advantage of checking your document against a much larger dictionary of words, but has the disadvantages of slower speed of spell checking and the display of many more unrelated or esoteric words in the "Suggested" list of the "Spell Check" dialog box.
- Check from: These options enable you to specify where in your document you want the spell checking to begin.
The "Beginning" option forces the program to start the spell checking of words at the beginning of your document.
The "Cursor" option starts the spell checking from the current cursor position.
- Direction: These options enable you to specify the direction of the spell checking inside your document.
The "Forward" option forces the spell checking to start at the "Check from" location you have specified (example: Cursor position) and proceed to the end of the document. Once it reaches the end of the document it continues from the beginning of the document until it reaches the word it started the spell checking from, and stops.
The "Backward" option is similar to the "Forward" option, except that the spell checking direction is from the cursor position toward the beginning of the document.