Spelling Dialog Box

Checks the spelling of words in a document. If a region is highlighted, only that part of the document is spell checked. Words are checked against the Proximity/Merriam-Webster Linguibase to look for spelling errors in your document. If licensed for foreign dictionary use, the spelling checker can also use selected foreign language or medical dictionaries.

The Spelling dialog box contains the following options:

• Not in Dictionary — Displays the word found by the spell check that is not in the dictionary.

The types of errors flagged by the spell checker are determined by the settings specified on the Spelling tab in the Preferences dialog box. Note that for some errors, this option might be named differently. For example, if the spell check detects a repeated word this option is named Repeated word.

• Change to — Displays suggestions for correcting misspelled words.

You can type in a correction or choose from the Suggestions list. Note that if you remove all content from this option, the dialog box gives you the option to delete either the current occurrence of the flagged word or all occurrences of the word in the document.

Clicking a word in the Suggestions list makes it appear in the Change to option.

• Ignore — Ignores the currently flagged word and continues spell checking.

If the word appears again or if you edit the flagged word or content before that word, the spell checker will no longer ignore.

If you move the cursor out of the Spelling dialog box and into the Edit window, the Spelling dialog box changes. Most of the options are grayed out. When you move the focus back to the dialog box, the Ignore button is renamed Continue. If you click Continue, the spell checking function continues and the button becomes Ignore again.

Note that content containing markup cannot be ignored. In this case, the spell checker treats the Ignore the same as the Continue button.

• Change — Replaces the flagged word with the text in the Change to option.

Note that when there is no content in the Change to option or the spell check has detected a repeated word, the name of this button changes to Delete and clicking it deletes the currently flagged word.

If the spelling to be changed occurs inside a DMS object that is writable (not read-only or checked out by another user), then the object will be checked out for edit. You will be prompted to confirm the check out.

• Add — Adds the word identified by the spell checker to the aptspell.xml file in your application data directory (creating the file if it does not exist).

The spell checker sources this file before checking spelling. The application data directory is the directory where your operating system stores user-specific data. This is usually C:\Document and Settings\user_name\Application Data\PTC\Arbortext\Editor.

• Ignore All — Ignores all occurrences of the flagged word and continues spell checking.

Spell checking will continue to ignore the suspect word in all documents edited during the current session.

• Change All — Changes all instances of the flagged word to a word selected from the list of options or one entered in the Change to option.

This button is named Delete All when there is no content in the Change to option or the spell check has detected a repeated word.

Arbortext Editor will provide a summary of the spelling changes that were successful, and those that failed.

• Options — Opens the Preferences dialog box with the Spelling category displayed.

You can choose to also spell check the contents of file entities in the Edit category of the Tools > Preferences dialog box. Check the box for Search File Entities on Find. The set entityscan advanced preference setting also controls this setting.