Re: Setting spell check
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:15:56 -0800
Sorry to have neglected to mention one thing that may not be known to all:
To launch the spell check in Outlook Express (or Outlook, for that matter),
use the same keystroke as you use in Word: F7. you don't have to set it to
trun automatically.
As for the chopped-off sentence fragment below, this is what happens when
you remember to run spell check, but forget to read through your message, as
if spell check had any way of knowing what you were up to.
I'd meant to agree with Jack Lowe's suggestion of using Shift Tab to get
Jaws to speak the word it sees as misspelled in an Outlook Express message.
Don't expect Jaws to read you that word within its context, as it would do
in Word in the same situation. It will just show the word or maybe the
spell checker's suggestion for a replacement. But if you Shift Tab into
this field, you can edit it if you like, so it won't matter what the spell
check has put there. when you're satisfied that you've made your desired
correction in this manner, hit Enter to accept the change and go on. If
you've misspelled or mistyped something, you'll get a warning noise and a
message dialogue saying that the word you inserted is incorrect and asking
you if you want to use it and go ahead anyway. In cases where you want to
type exactly what you want to type, and you know that the spell check
doesn't have this word in its dictionary or couldn't possibly understand
what you're up to, just press enter to make it accept the change and go on.
Hope this clarifies.
Daniel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 7:44 AM
Subject: Setting spell check
> To control the spell checker's behavior, open the Spell Check tab in the
> Outlook Express Tool/Options menu.
>
> From here, you can control everything that's been discussed in this thread
> except for the Jaws focus of the spell check, which Mr.
>
> Here, you can tab through the spell check options and this will clarify a
> lot about how the spell check functions.
>
> for instance, you can set the spell checker to run automatically when you
> begin to send a new message, or not. It sounds as if this is how it's set
> for a couple of the people who've posted to this thread. Personally, I
> keep
> this unchecked, because I seldom forget to run spell check, and often I
> use
> it while I'm in the midst of composing a message. But another user may
> prefer to automate the launch of the spell check, and that's where to set
> it.
>
> Another example from among the options on this tab is the box you can
> check
> or uncheck about whether or not you want spell check to check not only
> what
> you've written but also the message you're replying to. Of course, for
> this
> choice to be necessary, you have to have set the option in this tab for
> including the previous message in your reply, it goes without saying.
>
> If you set it to ignore previous message, it won't matter where your
> cursor
> happens to be at the time you launch the spell checker; it will simply
> proceed to spell check everything you've just written as a new message or
> reply, and it will ignore a previous message if a previous message is
> beneath your new text.
>
> Finally, an important thing to remember, and this would apply equally to
> using the spell check within Word, if you purposefully select text before
> you launch the spell checker, it will act only upon the text you've
> selected. Use this any time you want to override the above defaults, in
> order to spell check just a portion of your new outgoing email at a time,
> or
> to exclude the previous message from spell check's attention if you
> haven't
> set it in the Options menu to be ignored.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Daniel
>
>
>
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