
Chapter 3: Managing Text Documents With Writer
Spellcheck, Dictionaries, Hyphenation
Controlling Spellcheck via the dialogue
Choose Tools > Spellcheck or press F 7.
In a document where there are no unknown words Spellcheck will complete and display a
message box to say as much. Clicking the Ok button there will close the Spellcheck
dialogue, so one needs to deliberately spell a word incorrectly to see how Spellcheck works.
Normally the Spellcheck dialogue appears when called manually via the menu or by
pressing F7. Selecting text before calling the dialogue and then checking the spelling
only in the text that is selected can be an advantage. The Spellcheck dialogue is described in
detail in Help. A manually initiated Spellcheck always begins at the cursor position, unless
the text was selected (in which case it begins at the beginning of the selected text and ends at
its end). When the spell checking does not begin at the beginning of the document or if the
end of the document is reached during the checking process, a dialogue appears asking
confirmation that checking continue checking at the beginning of the document.
The system always searches first through the selected user-defined dictionaries and, if the
word is not found there, it searches through the main dictionary. Should the word not be there
either, the dialogue, shown above, is displayed and which allows the user to replace the
“word. Type it correctly in the Word field or select a word from the list of Suggestions, and
click on Replace.
The word in the Word text box can be permanently added to the user-defined dictionary.
First, select the Dictionary pull-down list. Then, click Add.
When replacing a word in the Word field with another word, one can check this other word
by clicking on the Check Word button.
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