Spelling
Checks the spelling in the selected text object.
Select your options for spell checking and click OK. Once the program has started with scanning your document and found the misspelled word, the word in the document will be highlighted and the most suitable correct word be placed in the "Change To" field. Below the "Change To" field, the program lists other possible choices that might 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 by the correct one.
If you want to use one of the other words in the list instead of that the program has selected, click on the word you want and then click Change.
If the same word is misspelled in other parts of the document and you want all these words to be replaced by the word you have selected, click Change All.
If you do not want to replace the word the spell checker has found and highlighted, click Ignore. If you want the program to ignore all other matches, click Ignore All.
If you are not satisfied with a list of suggested words, or if the program did not include other replacements in the list, you can click Suggest and Program will provide you with other possible replacements that you could choose from.
The Program has several methods of finding alternate replacements. Depending on method
the Program can:
-- look for common typing errors (Close Match),
-- make the suggestions on basis of how the word sounds (Phoneme)
-- suggest a special method for 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 the "ADD" button. The word in the "Checked" field is added to the dictionary. You can use different dictionaries while spell checking the document. Click "To Dictionary" combo box to select a dictionary you want.
The Spell Settings 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 the certain options for the Spelling checker. These options are:
- Current Dictionary: This enables you to select a dictionary with words you want the Spell Checker to use. Different dictionary 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 uses the optimized "USA.DCT" dictionary. The British version of this program will have the "UK.DCT" dictionary. Certainly other dictionary options may also be available if you purchase and use, such as the "USA_BIG.DCT", which contains more words than the "USA.DCT". Using the USA_BIG.DCT a privilege when checking document against other large dictionaries, but it has disadvantages such as slower speed of spell checking and it may display many unrelated or esoteric words in the "Suggested" list of the "Spell Check" dialog box.
- Check from: This section contains two options that enable you to specify where in your document you want the spell checking to start.
The "Beginning" option starts the spell checking from the beginning of your document.
The "Cursor" option starts the spell checking from the current cursor position.
- Direction: This section contains two options that enable you to specify the direction of spell checking held inside your document.
The "Forward" option makes the spell checking to start at the "Check from" location you have specified (e.g., Cursor position) and proceed to the end of the document. As soon as Spell Checker reaches to the end of the document, it continues then from the beginning of the document until it reaches the word the Spell Checker has started from, and stops.
The "Backward" option works similar to the "Forward" option, except that the spell checking direction is started from the cursor position toward the beginning of the document.