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Old 12-06-2012, 01:18 PM   #6
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Ignored words that are not deleted when you exit is what a dictionary is. Just setup a dictionary for that book.

As for the suggestions on how to improve Spellcheck, they look interesting. Currently Spellcheck has gone from not being there, to being available as highlights, and now it allows you to find and ignore/add the words easily. Adding a new Spellcheck Editor might be a way to make it more useful.

A good question is how much should such an editor allow. A list of all the misspelled words, with their filenames, possibly the block text containing the word, and options for each word - to ignore, to add to the dictionary. Double click to jump to the word. Editing the word? Quite a lot.

But what does all that really get you over using the Next Misspelled Word approach? Just set keystrokes for Next Misspelled Word, Ignore Word, and Add To Dictionary and then you can easily go through the document with full context and the ability to right click to get suggestions or just edit directly. Either way you still need to go through every word to check (and once marked ignored or added, the remaining ones are skipped). And Find&Replace can be used to correct common mistakes.

Now maybe to speed it up slightly you could have an entry that ignores the word and immediately finds the next one, or adds and finds the next one. But you could also setup a macro for the keystrokes.

So its not clear what should really change with Spellchecking.
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