Checking Your Spelling

Word97 provides you with a spelling and grammar checker.

• Open the file Thomas and Friends.
• Select Tools/Spelling and Grammar. The spelling checker will run.
• The first spelling mistake is the word operetions for operations.
  

• Look at the bottom of the dialog box. The highlighted word, operations, is what Word97 thinks this word should be. In this case Word97 is correct.
• Click on the Change button. The word will be changed to operations and the next spelling mistake will appear.
  

• Change dislik to dislike in a similar way.
• Similarly, in the next spelling mistake change luxorious to luxurious.
• The next error is a grammatical error.
  

• Click on Ignore to ignore this error. If we changed it the words The Fat Controller in the sentence would no longer make sense.
• In the next error, change the word kuay to quay.
• Save your work.

 

• Scroll through the document. There are places where the incorrect word has been used, but because the word is spelt correctly the spell checker does not pick up these errors.
• Change clam to clay in the section on Paxman Diesel.
• Change marks to makes in the section on Cranky the Crane.
• Save and close the document.

NOTE: It is common for proper names to be treated as spelling mistakes by Word97 - names like Augusta, Thomas etc. If this is a name you use a lot you may want to Add it to your dictionary (click the Add button when the name comes up as a spelling mistake), or else just Ignore it.