Check spelling


  Click in the document you want to check.     Choose Edit from the main menu.     Choose Check Spelling from the Edit menu.   Click Find All in the Spelling panel.     For each misspelled word found, correct it or select another option from the panel.
  Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you've checked the entire document.


You can click on Find All to create a list of the unrecognized words in the document. The misspelled words appear in the top scrolling browser. Select any number of  words in the browser and click on Learn to include the selected words in the spell-checker's local dictionary. If you click on a single word in the browser, its first occurrence will become selected and displayed it in the document.
You can click Learn All to add the entire list of unrecognized words to the LearnedWords file.
To correct a misspelled work, select a word from the Guesses browser (to place that word in the Replace Text Field) and click on the Replace button to replace the first occurrence of the selected unrecognized word.   Click on the Replace & Find button to do a replace and select the next occurrence of the unrecognized word.
You can type a replacement word in the Replace Text field if a suitable guess is not found.
You can click on Find Next to
search forward for the next occurrence of the selected unrecognized word
selects the word

  You can click the Allow button if a highlighted word is correct
for the document but you do not want to add the word to your
list of learned words.

In the Learned Words box,  you can click on the Edit button to manually edit the Learned Words dictionary.   Click the Show check box off to disable the display of Learned Words in the unrecognized word list
The spell checker assumes that the document is written using the main language set in Text Preferences. In addition, any text - from a single word to an entire text flow - can have a language attribute, and it will be spell-checked in that language.


See also

Select text
Set a new language
Set default language