Check Spelling in Your Document

Summary: Need to double-check your spelling? Word has a powerful spell-checker that will help out. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, and Word 95.)

Word provides a built-in spelling checker you can use to proof (double-check) your document. This tool doesn't check just spelling, but it also checks for proper capitalization and duplicate words. To run the spelling checker, follow these steps:

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document. (This is not entirely necessary, but makes the spelling check take less time.)
Choose Spelling from the Tools menu, or press F7. Word begins to check the spelling of your document, displaying the Spelling dialog box as it discovers potential errors.
Respond to the spelling suggestions as appropriate.

You don't have to spell check an entire document; you can run the spelling checker on a selection of text, as well. To run the spelling checker on a selection of text, do the following:

Select the text to be checked.
Choose Spelling from the Tools menu, or press F7.
Respond to the spelling suggestions as appropriate.

When the spelling check of the selection is complete, Word displays a dialog box asking if you want to check the rest of the document. Click on No to end the spelling check.

Tip #1022 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95

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