Spell Checking Manually

You can spell check various types of files. Questionable spellings are listed in a grid at the bottom of the window pane after you start the spell check process. You can click on a row to deal with a specific misspelling, then select the following row to move to the next one, and so on. You can also open a particular file where a questionable spelling occurs.

How to Spell Check Manually

1. Open the content file.
2. Do one of the following, depending on the part of the user interface you are using:
   • Ribbon Select Tools > Spell Check Window.
   • Keyboard Shortcut Press F7. If you use this shortcut, the Spell Check window pane opens and automatically displays the first questionable spelling it finds in the current file.

   The Spell Check window pane opens.

3. In the first drop-down,select the location where you want to perform the spell check:
   • current document Lingo checks the spelling in the active file only.
   • documents in the same folder Lingo checks the spelling in all files located in the same folder as the current one.
   • whole project Lingo checks the spelling in every file in the project.

4. Click Start. All occurrences of questionable spellings are displayed in a grid at the bottom of the window pane.

   If the process is in progress, the label changes to "Cancel," which you can click to stop the process.

5. In the grid select a row. The "Not In Dictionary" and "Suggestions" fields are populated with the results.

6. (Optional) You can click View In File to open the file where the current questionable spelling occurs, highlighting it.

   

7. The "Not In Dictionary" field displays each questionable spelling in its context with red, underlined font.

   

   You can use the buttons and drop-down field to the right in order to take action on the questionable spelling:

   • Ignore Lingo ignores the spelling of the word for the current session.

   • Ignore All Lingo ignores the spelling of the word and adds the spelling of this word to the Ignored Words Editor (which can be opened from the Tools ribbon). This means that if other occurrences of the word are found in any other files in future sessions, they will not be flagged as questionable spellings. This is similar to adding words to a dictionary. The difference is that this feature simply ignores questionable spellings of certain words, whereas a dictionary also lists spellings as suggestions. See Adding Words to the Ignore Spell Check List.

   • Add To Dictionary Lingo adds the word to the dictionary so that it is not flagged as a questionable spelling in the future. The word will also be displayed as a suggestion for future questionable spellings that are very similar. The kind of dictionary (Global or Project) to which it is added is determined by the selection in the next field.
   • Global/Project If you select Global, spellings of words are added to a dictionary that can be used by any projects pointing to it. If you select Project, spellings of words are added to a dictionary that can be used only by the current project.

8. The "Suggestions" field displays alternative suggestions for each questionable spelling.

   

   You can use the buttons to the right in order to replace the current spelling with a suggestion, or to set other options:

   • Change Lingo changes only the current instance of the misspelled word with the alternative word selected in the Suggestions field.
   • Change All Lingo changes all instances of the misspelled word with the alternative word selected in the Suggestions field.

   • Options This opens the Spelling tab of the Options dialog.

     If you are using a global dictionary, you can use fields at the top of the dialog to choose a location for it.

     You can also use the fields at the bottom of the dialog to ignore any of the following when spell checking files:

     • Ignore repeated words
     • Ignore words with numbers
     • Ignore uppercase words
     • Ignore URLs
     • Ignore email addresses
     • Ignore mixed case words