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I use ABBYY 7, so it's possible some of the menu options have shifted by 8 or 9, but I expect they still all exist.
Tools-->Options: Check Spelling tab
Unclick "Ignore words with digits and other nonalphabetical characters." Do this before running OCR.
To add all grammatical forms of words to the dictionary, unclick "Skip prompting for word forms." (Note: this can add much time to the proofreading, but it helps the dictionary later. Especially useful if you do lots of a single type of documents that have lots of their own vocabulary--legal docs, medical, fashion magazines, whatever.)
Error display level: Set to "thorough" before running the OCR.
While editing:
Control-H gets "find and replace." You can use this to fix common OCR errors, but be careful that you want to replace *all* uses of the word or word-section. (Good to find all of those cases of "die" instead of "the," but you don't want to use Replace All on those.)
When a suspect appears, "accept" is the default selection; you can use return instead of a mouse-click to go on to the next one. (You may know this; I've run into people who didn't, and tried to click on the mouse for every single suspect. Good recipe for carpal-tunnel syndrome.)
When the text window is open for corrections, you can move around in it with mouse or arrows; I'll often correct every error I can see in the window before continuing with the automated error finder; this lets me spot some errors that the program doesn't recognize. (Like using hyphens instead of superscript 1's. Or spelling burn as bum.)
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