Brother International WP1700MDS Owners Manual - English - Page 126

Spell Checker (Word Spell) The Spell Checker comes with a built-in dictionary of about 95,000 English words. When checking your text, the Spell Checker automatically compares each word with the contents of the built-in dictionary. If a word is not found in the built-in dictionary, the word processor assumes that the word in question is misspelled and warns you. The built-in dictionary contains only standard English words, and will consider words like brand names, people's names, or foreign language words as misspelled words, even if those words are correct. If you frequently use such words in your document, you should create a "User Dictionary" and store those words in that dictionary. The user dictionary is kept in the memory for as long as the power is on. When a word cannot be found in the built-in dictionary, the Spell Checker will scan the user dictionary and warn you only if the word cannot be found there. When a word cannot be found in either dictionary, the Spell Checker gives you a menu of options: • You may IGNORE the warning and keep the suspect word unchanged. • You may ask for SUGGESTIONS. In this case, the Spell Checker will supply possible replacement word(s) for the suspect word. • You may also directly RETYPE the word correctly. This option is used when the IT error is evident and easy to correct, or when the system cannot provide the correct suggestion. • You may ADD the suspect word to the user dictionary. This is useful when the IT suspect word, although correct, is not a standard English word. Once the C) word is stored in the user dictionary, the Spell Checker will not warn you the m next time the same word is found. The Spell Checker also detects double words (you typed the same word twice). When this happens, a menu of options appears: • You may IGNORE the warning and keep the repeated word in the text. • You may automatically ERASE the SECOND WORD. NOTE: This system is not a replacement for careful proofreading of your documents. It has no way of knowing, for example, whether words are missing or whether a given word is appropriate for the current context. If you type "teh" instead of "the", the spell checker alerts you because "teh" is not a valid English word, but if you type "one" instead of "on", it does not consider it a mistake. 116