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HTXT_8_The Control Dialog_
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Most of your interaction with Excalibur will be through the
control dialog. It contains buttons for starting the spell
check operation and for making corrections to words. You must
open a document using Open… in the File menu for the
control dialog to appear.
Getting Started
To begin spell checking, hit the Start button.
Excalibur will display incorrect words in the Unknown
Word field. This means that it wasn't able to find the word
in any active dictionary. See the Active Dictionaries
section for more information on active dictionaries.
How to make a spelling correction
You enter spelling corrections through the Change To: box.
You can get text into this box in several ways.
1. Simply enter the correct word.
2. Hit the Change button. This will copy the incorrect
word to the Change To: box. You can then edit the word.
3. Ask Excalibur to suggest a correction by hitting the
Suggest button. If you see the correct spelling in the list
of words that Excalibur presents, double click on it. This
will copy the correct word into the Change To: box.
To complete the change operation, hit the Change button.
Helpful hint: If the Change To: box is empty, then
Excalibur uses the flagged word to create its suggestion list.
If the Change To: box has text in it, Excalibur uses that
text as a basis for its suggestion list. So, if Excalibur
doesn't give you a suggestion that you like, hit the Change
button to copy the flagged word into the Change To: box. Then
change its spelling slightly and hit Suggest again.
Ingoring a Word
If you would like to ignore what Excalibur thinks is a
misspelled word, hit the Ignore button. Excalibur will
ignore any subsequent occurrence of this word also. You can
change this behavior in the Options menu.
Adding Words to a Dictionary
Excalibur flags any word that is not in an active
dictionary. To add the flagged word to an active dictionary,
hit the Add… button. You can add the word to any active
dictionary other than the Standard Dictionary.
After adding a word to a dictionary, you will still have to
take an action on the current word. It will often be the case
that you would like to simply ignore the word now that you have
entered it into a dictionary. You can use the Options menu
to make this the default action.
Note: In order for the Add… button to be operational,
you must have at least one user defined dictionary that is
active. A dictionary is active if it is checked.