Spelling Checker Tour
When creating or editing Comments or Mails, a
button will appear, allowing you to spell check your comments, mail subject, and mail message.
Click the button, and a screen will open, allowing you to check the spelling.
In the above screen, notice how words that begin a sentence are highlighted, and the spell
checker screen allows you to choose to replace it with an initial cap, as in "hello" versus "Hello."
As you traverse through the content, the text will be highlighted as you go, so you may choose to
"Replace" that one instance of the mispelling, or "Replace All" instances of the mispelling. If
it is a valid spelling, you may select the "Ignore" or "Ignore All" instances to move along.
Press the "Finish" button if you desire to end prior to completion.
Learn Button
The Spell Checker has the ability to semipermanently
ignore certain words. This feature is very similar to the
Learn feature of standard word processor spell checkers. In our
Spell Checker the learning of words is accomplished using client side
cookies.
This allows the user to prevent certain words from being flagged as
errors. However, because this feature is implemented using client side
cookies, if the user changes computers or erases the cookies from
their machine then the words will no longer be saved.
This approach allows you to learn your own words without
the central dictionary getting corrupted when a user ‘learns’
an incorrect word.
Internet Explorer versus Other Browsers
Internet Explorer for Windows has many features that other web
browsers do not have. One of these features is the ability to highlight
Spell Checker selected portions of text in a form field. When the user is running
Internet Explorer, the Spell Checker uses this feature to show the user where the
error was in the original text. This allows for a cleaner, more
traditional spell checker interface.
Users accessing the spell checker from other browsers, or a non
Windows version of Internet Explorer see a correction preview panel
instead.
