Checking Your Spelling

Of course, some goofs go unnoticed too long for Undo to do much good ” especially spelling errors. Fortunately, Composer has a spelling checker to rescue you.

To check spelling in a page, click the Spelling button on the Composition toolbar. Composer finds the first word it doesn't recognize (like all spelling checkers, it finds not so much misspelled words as words not in its dictionary), and displays the dialog box shown in Figure 20.18.

Figure 20.18. Click the Spelling button to open this box for fixxing yor speling.

In the Check Spelling box, you can

• Click any correct word listed in the Suggestions box and then click either the Replace button to change the misspelled word to the suggestion or Replace All to change all words spelled this way to the suggestion you chose.

• Edit or retype the word in the Word box to correct it and then click either the Replace button to change the misspelled word to the new version or Replace All to change all words spelled this way to the new version.

• Click Ignore to skip a word that's spelled correctly and just not recognized (like Snell ).

• Click Ignore All to ignore this word everywhere in the page.

• Click Learn to add to the dictionary a correctly spelled but unrecognized word (like Snell ) so that Composer no longer regards it as misspelled, in this or any other page you spell-check.

After you do any of these actions, the spelling checker moves on to the next word it doesn't recognize.