Spell Checking Your Project

You can check:

To spell check a specific topic:

  1. Open the topic in the WYSIWYG pane by clicking on the topic in the TOC pane, the Project pane, or the Topics pane. If you want to spell check a certain word or section of the topic, highlight that area.

  2. Select Tools from the Menu Bar. The Tools Menu opens.

  3. Select Spell Check Current Topic. A Spell Check dialog box opens.

  4. Click next to Whole Document, From current cursor position, or Selected Text to select where you want the spell check to occur.

  5. Click OK. Another Spell Check dialog box opens.

  6. The misspelled words appears next to Word:. Look at the suggested spellings and select the correct spelling.

  7. Click Change to change the misspelling. Click Change All if you want spell check to change every misspelling of the word to the selected spelling.

  8. If you want spell check to ignore a misspelling, click either Ignore or Ignore All. You may also want to click Add Word to the dictionary.

  9. If you want to stop the spell check, click Stop.

  10. A dialog box opens telling you when the spell check is complete. Click OK.

To spell check all topics:

  1. Open any topic in the WYSIWYG pane.

  2. Select Tools from the Menu Bar. The Tools Menu opens.

  3. Select Spell Check All Topics. The first topic in your project opens and a Spell Check dialog box opens.

  4. The misspelled words appears next to Word:. Look at the suggested spellings and select the correct spelling.

  5. Click Change to change the misspelling. Click Change All if you want spell check to change every misspelling of the word to the selected spelling.

  6. If you want spell check to ignore a misspelling, click either Ignore or Ignore All. You may also want to click Add Word to the dictionary.

  7. If you want to stop the spell check, click Stop.

  8. A dialog box opens telling you when the spell check is complete. Click OK.