Pagesmith present its spelling controls in the sidebar rather than in a separate window like most applications.
To show the Spelling View:
You use the Spelling View to find and correct misspellings; to manage the document’s list of ignored words; to manage your user spelling dictionary; and to set the scope of the spell check.
When you show the Spelling View, Pagesmith seeks the next misspelling in your document. If it doesn’t find a misspelling, the message The spell check is complete. flashes briefly at the insertion point.
When Pagesmith finds a misspelling, it selects the misspelling in the your document; places the misspelling in the text field at the top of the Spelling View; and if possible, supplies a list of likely replacements. In the picture below, the spell checker has found a misspelling and is displaying some likely replacements:
To correct the misspelling:
Pagesmith places the correction in your document and seeks the next misspelling.
Rather than correct the misspelling, you can skip over it, add it your user spelling dictionary, or add it to your document’s list of misspellings.
Your user spelling dictionary is part of your user account in Mac OS X. When you add a spelling to your user dictionary, all applications (like Pagesmith) that use the Apple spell checking service will treat that spelling as correct. OS X keeps a separate dictionary for every language that you use.
Each Pagesmith document keeps a list of spellings that are considered to be correct for that document. This is just like your user spelling dictionary except that it applies only to that document.
To skip over the misspelling:
To add the spelling to your user spelling dictionary:
To add the spelling to your document’s list of correct spellings:
You can limit the scope of the spell check in two ways. You can search only the column layout, header, or footer containing the insertion point, rather than the searching the entire document; and you control whether the search wraps around to the beginning when it reaches the end of the search range.
To modify the scope of the spell check:
Pagesmith allows you to manage your user spelling dictionary. In some word processors, if you inadvertently add a spelling to your user dictionary, there is no way to correct that mistake short of hunting down the file in your Library folder and editing it manually. In Pagesmith you can see all the spellings that have been added by any application, and you can add, delete, and modify spellings.
To edit your user spelling dictionary:
To edit your document’s list of correct spellings: