Spell Checker

Used to review text or text node elements for spelling errors.

Spell Checker searches the selected text elements and flags any words that do not have a match in its dictionary. You can review individually selected text elements, selection sets of text, or any text within the fence contents.

For every unrecognized word, Spell Checker offers a list of suggestions. You can choose to change the flagged word with one of the suggested words, or to leave it as is by clicking the Ignore button. If you want Spell Checker to automatically ignore certain words that it normally might flag, such as a product´s name or an abbreviation, you can add them to a special user dictionary.

Spell Checker does not recognize the following as text: dimension text, tags, or cells with text.

Tool Setting	Effect
Ignore	Skips the word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, then advances to the next unrecognized word in the text element or selection set.
Ignore All	Skips all of the words in the document that match the word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, then advances to the next unrecognized word in the text element or selection set.
Change	Replaces the word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field with the option displayed in the Change to field, then advances to the next unrecognized word in the text element or selection set.
Change All	Replaces all of the words in the document that match the word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field with the option displayed in the Change to field, then advances to the next unrecognized word in the text element or selection set.
Add	Adds the word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field to the user dictionary, then advances to the next unrecognized word in the text element or selection set.
Suggest	Searches the default language and user dictionaries for a list of words with the closest spelling to the text displayed in the Change to field.
Dictionary	Opens the Edit User Dictionary dialog box, which is used to add words to or delete words from the user dictionary (different from the default language dictionary, which is uneditable).
Cancel	Closes the dialog box without making any additional changes. If you click Cancel before modifying, replacing or skipping all of the words Spell Checker would have flagged in a text element, any changes you made to the text element before clicking Cancel are not applied in the design file.
Not in dictionary	Displays the text element containing the misspelled or unrecognized word, which is highlighted. Although the description “Not in dictionary” covers most of the errors that Spell Checker finds, this title may change to fit other possible situations. For example, if the same word appears twice in a row, the title of this field changes from “Not in dictionary” to “Doubled word.”
Change to	Displays the first item in the Suggestions list box below it.
Suggestions	Displays a list of words with the closest spelling to the text highlighted in the Not in dictionary field. If you modify or replace the word in the Change to field and click the Suggest button, this box then displays a list of words with the closest spelling to the text in the Change to field.

To search for and correct spelling errors in a text element or text node

Select the Spell Checker tool.

Identify a text element or text node.

Accept the selected text.
If there are no misspelled or unrecognized words in the selected text, the status bar displays the message, “Spelling Check Complete.” If there are misspelled or unrecognized words in the selected text, the Spell Checker dialog box opens with the flagged word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, and the first word from the Suggestions list box displayed in the Change to field.

If you are satisfied with the word in the Change to field, click Change.
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Make another selection from the Suggestions list box and click Change.
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Type a new word in the Change to field and click Change.
The text from the Change to field replaces the highlighted text, and the search advances to the next unrecognized word in the Not in dictionary field. After the last flagged word is modified, replaced or skipped, the Spell Checker dialog box closes, and any changes made to the selected text are updated in the design file.

If more than one word in a text node is flagged, the text node is not updated (in the design file) until the last flagged word in it is modified, replaced or skipped.

To search for and correct spelling errors in a selection set of text elements

Create a selection set of text elements.
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From the Edit menu, choose Select All.

Select the Spell Checker tool.

Accept the selection set.
If there are no misspelled or unrecognized words in the selection set, the status bar displays the message, “Spelling Check Complete.” If there are misspelled or unrecognized words in the selection set, the Spell Checker dialog box opens with the flagged word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, and the first word from the Suggestions list box displayed in the Change to field.

If you are satisfied with the word in the Change to field, click Change.
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Make another selection from the Suggestions list box and click Change.
or
Type a new word in the Change to field and click Change.
The text in the Change to field replaces the flagged word in the design file, and the search advances to the next unrecognized word in the selection set. After the last flagged word in the selection set is modified, replaced or skipped, the Spell Checker dialog box closes.

To search for and correct spelling errors of text elements within the fence contents

Place a fence.

Select the Spell Checker tool.

From the Spell Checker tool settings window, turn on Use Fence, and select a Fence Mode (Inside, Overlap, Void, or Void Overlap).

Accept the fence contents.
If there are no misspelled or unrecognized words in the selection set, the status bar displays the message, “Spelling Check Complete.” If there are misspelled or unrecognized words in the selection set, the Spell Checker dialog box opens with the flagged word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, and the first word from the Suggestions list box displayed in the Change to field.

If you are satisfied with the word in the Change to field, click Change.
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Make another selection from the Suggestions list box and click Change.
or
Type a new word in the Change to field and click Change.
The text in the Change to field replaces the flagged word in the design file, and the search advances to the next unrecognized word in the selection set. After the last flagged word in the selection set is modified, replaced or skipped, the Spell Checker dialog box closes.

To search for and correct spelling errors before placing text in a design file

Select the Place Text tool.

In the Text Editor window, type the text you want to place in the design file.

Click the Spelling button.
If there are no misspelled or unrecognized words in the selected text, the status bar displays the message, “Spelling Check Complete.” If there are misspelled or unrecognized words in the selected text, the Spell Checker dialog box opens with the flagged word highlighted in the Not in dictionary field, and the first word from the Suggestions list box displayed in the Change to field.

To add the currently flagged word to the user dictionary

When a word is highlighted in the Not in dictionary field on the Spell Checker dialog box, click the Add button.
The highlighted word is added to the user dictionary.

The word added to the user dictionary is assigned the Ignore (skip) action by default. (See step 4 of the following procedure.)

To add a word to the user dictionary and assign it a Spell Checker action

From the Spell Checker dialog box, click the Dictionary button.
The Edit User Dictionary dialog box opens.

In the Word field, type the word you want to add to the user dictionary.

(Optional) In the Suggested word field, type the word you want to appear in the Spell Checker dialog box as the first replacement word suggestion.
This field only applies when you choose either of the two “Conditionally change” options mentioned in the next step.
When Spell Checker flags the word you added to the user dictionary, the word's suggested replacement that you typed in the Suggested word field appears in the Spell Checker dialog box's Change to field, and also as the first entry in the Suggestions list box.

To make Spell Checker ignore (treat as correctly spelled) the added word, from the Action pull-down menu, choose Ignore (skip).
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To make Spell Checker flag the added word, but display the specified Suggested word (step 3) with the same case as the flagged word, from the Action pull-down menu, choose Conditionally change, using case of checked word.
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To make Spell Checker flag the added word, but display the specified Suggested word (step 3) with the same case as the Suggested word, from the Action pull-down menu, choose Conditionally change, using case of suggested word.
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To make Spell Checker flag the added word and provide the default list of suggestions, from the Action pull-down menu, choose Exclude (treat as misspelled).

Click the Add word button.
The new word is added alphabetically to the Word list box (to the left of the Add word button).

To delete a word from the user dictionary

From the Spell Checker dialog box, click the Dictionary button.
The Edit User Dictionary dialog box opens.

In the Word list box, select the word you want to delete from the user dictionary.

Click the Delete Word button.
The selected word is deleted from the Word list box.

Key-in: SPELLCHECK INTERACTIVE

Key-in: SPELLCHECK EDITOR

You can adjust additional Spell Checker settings, such as the default language that Spell Checker will use, in the Spelling category of the Preferences dialog box (Workspace > Preferences).