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The SPELL command is used to check spelling. The document you wish to check should be open and displayed on the screen.
| 1 | Place the cursor at the top of the document to check the entire document. If you wish to check beginning at a specific point in the document, place the cursor at the point you wish to begin. If you wish to check a block of text, the block. |
| 2 | Press F9 to access the action line. |
| 4 | Press F10 to start the spell checker. |
| 5 | The cursor will move to the first questionable word in your file and a dialog box will be displayed. |
| • | To accept the questionable word as it is, click Ignore Once, for Session or Always. Clicking Always will add the questionable word to the dictionary so that in future sessions, the spell checker will not identify the word as questionable. |
| • | To replace the questionable word, type the replacement word in the entry field or highlight it in the list of suggested alternatives. Then click Replace Once, for Session or Always. Clicking Always will add the questionable word and its replacement to the dictionary. In future sessions, the questionable word will be highlighted, with the replacement included as a suggested alternative, or, if the Auto Replace feature is on, the correction will be made automatically. |
| • | To stop the spell checker and return to the document, click Close. |
| 6 | Repeat step 5 until all questionable words have been highlighted. When the spell checking is finished, the number of words checked and the number of questionable words will be displayed on the status line. |
| 7 | The spell checker checks the of the document, not the . In addition to checking the body, elements can be checked by typing one or more of the extensions listed below immediately after the word spell on the action line. Then follow steps 5 and 6 as shown above. |
| To check all footnotes /fn |
| To check specific footnote series /fn=1 or /fn=2 or /fn=3 |
| To check specific note series /nt=1 or /nt=2 or /nt=3 etc. |
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