Brother International EM550 Owners Manual - English - Page 80

SPELLING CHECKER Using the Spell Check Function This machine is equipped with a spelling checker of American English with a dictionary of about 70,000 English words. It is as simple to use as typing, because the dictionary will check the words for you automatically as you type them! To place your typewriter into the spell cheek mode, just press the CODE + W SPELL keys. It is released from the spell check mode in the same manner. After having been placed in the spell check mode, if a misspelled w• ord (or a word not contained in the dictionary) is detected, the beep will sound, and in the direct type mode, the suspect word will appear on the lower line of the display. CfW ► 1 1 10 1 STD M SUSPECT WORD : W.SPELL This mode may be used when printing has been temporarily suspended for additional typing input as well. The spell check mode will appear on the display when the CODE + STATUS keys are pressed in the word processor mode. The display looks like this: 4 WP► 1 1 10 1 STD M W.SPELL 4 It is helpful to know what the dictionary recognizes as a word as it checks. The spell check function treats any continuous succession of letters followed by any of the following key inputs as a word for checking purposes: • SPACEBAR • OPERATE • PERMANENT SPACE • IND CLR • TAB • END • L IND • PAGE • P IND • SLASH • RELOC • TW/WP • EXPR • TWO PERIODS in a row • RETURN • STOP CODE (except when preceded by a hyphen) • INDEX (pressing twice) • CTR • R INDEX (pressing twice) • RMF This does not include special characters such as parenthesis or quotation marks, unless these are preceded and followed by alphabetic characters with no intervening space. 72 CEA