Checking your spelling

Claris Home Page provides a spelling checker to help you polish your writing. You can check the spelling of all the words in the page you're working on and check individually selected words. You can also use the spelling checker to count the number of words in your Web page or selection.

To check the spelling

Do this

In a page

Choose Spell and then Check Spelling from the Tools menu (Windows) or Edit menu (Macintosh).

In selected text

Select the words you want to check, and then choose Spell and then Check Selection from the Tools menu (Windows) or Edit menu (Macintosh).

Once you choose one of these options, the Spelling dialog box appears and Claris Home Page begins checking for questionable words.

The spelling checker verifies the words you are checking with those in the main dictionary (that is installed in the Claris folder, see chapter 1, "Installing Claris Home Page" in the Getting Started guide that accompanied your application) and with whatever is the currently selected dictionary. If it does not find a word that matches, it suggests alternatives. If the spelling of the word in question is correct (such as the spelling of someone's name), you can add the word to a user dictionary by clicking Learn if you already have created a user dictionary.

Click the triangle to display the questionable word in context in the bottom of the spelling dialog box.

Use this option

To do this

Replace

Click to replace the questionable word with the word selected in the list (changes to Done when check is complete). Type a keyboard shortcut (shown to the left of the word) to replace a word.

Check

Type the text in the Word text box you want to check. Click Check. The spelling of the word is checked and if questionable, a list of optional words appear.

Skip

Click to keep the word in question as is and move on to another selection.

Learn

Click to add the questionable word to the user dictionary.

Cancel

Click to stop the spelling checker.

Words checked

Learn how many words are in the selection or document.

Questionable words

Learn how many questionable words are in the document.

Questionable word in context text box

See the questionable word in context. Click the triangle to hide or show the word in context.

Changing dictionaries

To change the dictionary that Claris Home Page is currently using, choose Spell from the Tools menu (Windows) or Edit menu (Macintosh), and then select Select Dictionaries.

Editing dictionaries

To edit words in your user dictionary, choose Edit User Dictionary from the Edit menu. In the dialog box, you can add a new entry to the dictionary, remove entries from the list, edit dictionary entries, import dictionary entries from a text file, or export the contents of a dictionary to a text file.

Use this option

To do this

Add

Add the entry to the dictionary

Remove

Remove a selected entry from the dictionary

OK

Apply your changes to the user dictionary and close the dialog box.

Cancel

Close the dialog box without making any changes to the user dictionary.

Entry

Type a new entry or edit a selected entry.

Import

Import entries from another dictionary.

Export

Export entries from another dictionary.

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