Hello,
While in the body of a mail message, make sure that spelling and
grammar are activated with Command :Shift Colon. Then when you use
Command Semicolon, it will work. But instead of using the contextual
menu, you have to use VO Shift F2 twice and select the spellcheck
window.
HTH,
Dan
On Jan 29, 2008, at 7:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=== 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
