Hello Jason, Simon, Olivia and List!
As Simon and Jason mentioned, in TextEdit, you can begin a spell check
by pressing Command-; (semicolon). This will highlight a misspelled
word and VO will announce it. To see suggested spellings and other
options, press VO-Shift-M to open the shortcut (or contextual) menu.
From this menu, you can make a selection or press the escape key and
type in your own spelling for the word. To go to the next misspelled
word, press Command-; again.
In Mail, you can also use Command-; to highlight each misspelled word.
However, bringing up the shortcut menu with VO-Shift-M does not
provide suggested spellings, etc. as it does in TextEdit. (It appears
the focus is not on the highlighted, misspelled word and I cannot
figure out how to fix it.) In Mail, I prefer to just figure out the
spellings on my own, or send the entire message to spell check with
the Command-Shift-; keyboard command.
Hope this helps.
Lou.
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=== Original Messages ===
Just a note: Pressing command+; will ` misspelled words one at a
time with each keypress. Pressing command+: will bring up the more
familiar spell checker which has the list of suggestions and stuff.
Hope this helps.
-Jason
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Olivia,
I've just had a quick look at textt edit and spell checking. It
would appear after a very hurried and cursory attempt that spell
checking works differently here than what you are used to in Word.
You start the process by pressing command + ; at which point the
first misspellt word is highlighted. I actually couldn't find any
suggestions so I had to correct it manually. Then I had to execute
the same command again to proceed and so on and so on. Maybe there's
better way but at the moment I can't help you.
You might want to go into text edit edit menu and have a look and
experiment. You might also want to try another application which is
freeware downloadable from the internet called Bean. It might work
somewhat better. Some people on the list have been using it
successfully.
With best wisehes
Simon
