Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger نسخه متنی

1.

Choose Edit > Spelling > Spelling (Figure 51 ) or press to display the Spelling dialog and start the spelling check.

TextEdit selects and underlines the first possible misspelled word it finds. The word appears in a field in the Spelling dialog and any suggested corrections appear in the Guess list (Figure 52 ).

2.

You have several options:

To replace the word with a guess, select the replacement word and click Correct.

To enter a new spelling for the word, enter it in the box where the incorrect spelling appears and click Correct.

To ignore the word, click Ignore.

To skip the word and continue checking, click Find Next.

To add the word to TextEdit's dictionary, click Learn. TextEdit will never stop at that word again in any document.

3.

Repeat step 2 for each word that TextEdit identifies as a possible misspelling.

4.

When you're finished checking spelling, click the Spelling dialog's close button to dismiss it.

1.

Choose Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling As You Type (Figure 51 ).

As you enter text into the document, TextEdit checks the spelling of each word. It places a dashed red underline under each word that isn't in its dictionary. (Figure 53 ).

2.

Manually correct a misspelled word using standard text editing techniques covered near the beginning of this chapter.

or

Hold down and click a misspelled word. Then choose a correct spelling from the contextual menu that appears (Figure 54 ). The misspelled word is replaced with the word you chose.