Check Spelling Dialog

The Check-Spelling Dialog appears if a word requiring your attention is detected. You can use the dialog to specify whether the word should be ignored or replaced.

Add button: Causes the reported word to be added to the dictionary selected in the Add Words To list. Use the add button if a correctly spelled word you use often is reported as a misspelling (e.g., your family name). If the word is not used frequently, you may want to select the Ignore or Ignore All buttons instead.

Add Words To list: Indicates which user dictionary words will be added to when you select the Add button. The Add Words To list shows all user dictionaries currently open. You can open or close other dictionaries via the Dictionaries dialog, which is accessible by selecting the Dictionaries button.

Cancel button: Stops the current spell-checking operation.

Change button: Causes the reported word to be replaced with the word in the Change To box. Only this occurrence of the reported word is replaced. If you want this and all following occurrences of the word replaced, select the Change All button. If the Change To box is empty, the Change button changes to Delete.

Change All button: Causes this and all following occurrences of the reported word to be replaced with the word in the Change To box. If you want only this occurrence of the word to be replaced, use the Change button. If the reported word is one you frequently misspell, you might consider adding it to a user dictionary via the Dictionaries dialog. You can display the Dictionaries dialog by selecting the Dictionaries button.

Change To box: Contains a word which will replace a misspelled word when you select the Change or Change All buttons. You can enter a word in the Change To box by typing, or you can select one of the suggested replacements from the Suggestions list.

Consider Changing box: Contains a word which may be misspelled or otherwise incorrect, and is presented with a candidate replacement word. You can change the word by selecting the Change button, or skip it by selecting the Ignore button. Note that the label of this box changes to ´Not in dictionary´ when a misspelled word is detected.

Dictionaries button: Causes the Dictionaries dialog to be displayed. You can use the Dictionaries dialog to open or close user dictionaries, and to edit the contents of user dictionaries.

Ignore button: Causes this occurrence of a misspelled word to be skipped. If the same misspelled word appears later, it will be reported.

Ignore All button: Causes this and all further occurrences of a misspelled word to be skipped. You might use this button if the word reported as a misspelling is actually spelled correctly. If the word is one you use frequently, you may wish to ignore it permanently by selecting the Add button.

Lock Pos. check-box: Locks the position of the Check-Spelling dialog in place. Normally the Check-Spelling dialog attempts to position itself to avoid the window containing the text being checked. When the Lock check-box is checked, the Check-Spelling dialog will always appear at the last place you positioned it.

Not in dictionary box: Indicates that a misspelled word was detected. The word is considered misspelled because it could not be located in any open dictionaries, or was located in an exclude-type dictionary. Note that the label of this box changes to ‘Consider changing’ when a word and a suggested replacement are displayed.

Options button: Causes the Options dialog to be displayed. You can use the Options dialog to set spelling-checker options.

Suggest button: Search more thoroughly for suggested replacements for the current misspelled word. Each time you press the Suggest button, a ‘deeper’ search is made. The Suggest button is disabled once all possible suggestions have been located.

Suggestions list: Contains a list of suggested replacements for the word reported as misspelled. This list is filled in automatically when a misspelled word is detected. Subsequent presses of the Suggest button may yield more suggestions. A word selected in this list will be automatically copied to the Change To box, where it can be substituted for the misspelled word by pressing the Change button.

Undo button: Removes the last change made. The Undo button can be pressed several times to remove the last several changes.