Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 192)

172 Proofing Documents
Activate the Spelling floating window
▶ Click your insertion point in the “Correct” text edit box.
You can then type alternative spellings in it or select various words from the “Guess” list using
the arrow keys of your keyboard.
Replace a misspelled word using the spelling checker
When the spelling checker finds a word which is not in its dictionary, it suggests alternatives and
allows you to correct it. The suggestions given are based upon both the actual characters and the
phonetic sounds of the unknown word.
1. Use the scroll list to view suggestions for misspelled words.
2. Click one of them to place it in the Correct box.
3. To replace the word in your document with the word in the Replace With box
▶ click Correct or
▶ if the Spelling window is the active window, press < or T.
▶ If you cannot find the word you want in the suggestion list, select the unknown word in the text
edit box at the bottom of the Spelling window and edit it, then click Correct or press
< or T.
Skip words flagged by the spelling checker
You can make the spelling checker skip words that it might otherwise flag in a number of different
ways.
• Skip the word in a session.
• Mark the word while a particular file is open.
• Add the word to the Dictionary (by clicking Learn).
If the spelling checker comes to a word that it does not recognize, yet is accurately spelled.
▶ Click Ignore to leave all instances of the unknown word unaltered in the file during that
session.
▶ Click Find Next to leave the unknown word unaltered.
Skip all instances of a particular word
▶ Click Ignore.
Add a word to the Dictionary
▶ Click Learn when the Check Spelling dialog displays a word not in its dictionary that you want
to add to your Dictionary.
Find the next error
Nisus Writer Express can find the next spelling error in your document without opening the Check
Spelling window.
▶ Choose Check Spelling from the Spelling submenu of the Edit menu.
Nisus Writer Express selects the word that the Check Spelling dialog would find if it were open.
Stop the spelling checker
▶ Click the Spelling window’s Close box.
User Dictionaries
You can increase the vocabulary of the spelling checker by adding words to the Dictionary. When
you add a word to the Dictionary it is “learned” for all applications that use the spelling checker.
The words in the spelling checker are “User” dependent. If other “Users” have login rights to the
same computer, each User has his or her own dictionary available in all applications.
Edit the Dictionary
You can add to and/or subtract words from your Dictionary any time the Spelling window is open.
▶ Click Learn if the spelling checker finds a word not in its list but which you want to include.
▶ Type words directly into the Replace With box and click Learn.
▶ To remove the word, type it directly into the Replace With box and click Forget.
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Remember that all words in the User Dictionary are not case sensitive.