Thanks Sarah - didn't know this was the way to do this - Andy On 17 Aug 2013, at 20:09, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try when checking for spalling vo shift m on the selection That will bring up > a set of replacements. Then hit enter on the thingy. > > Tc. > On Aug 17, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Andy Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Anne - >> >> I was having problems selecting a single word, or couple of words to delete >> from the middle of a sentence. Yes, I could delete them character by >> character, but wanted to be able to simply select the whole word, or several >> words, and delete them. What was happening was that when I held down the >> shift key and used the arrow keys to select, I was getting more text than I >> wanted, selected for deletion. >> >> As for using CMD Semicolon for spell checking, all that this seems to do for >> me, is to remove the misspelled word from the text. Clearly I'm doing >> something wrong with this method of spell checking. I don't get to see a >> word list of possible replacements, and I have tried hitting both return and >> tab, but get the same result, namely the misspelled word is removed. At >> least using CMD and shift with Semicolon, I do see some familiar options, >> such as skip and learn word [which is the same as the Windows add to >> dictionary option] as well as a word list. Unfortunately, this way doesn't >> seem to allow for skipping through the mistakes and correcting them one >> after another, it appears you have to come out of the spell checking, and go >> in to it again with the next mistake - >> >> Andy >>> Hello Andy, >>> >>> Once text is selected, pressing Delete will delete all the selected text. >>> You can also select text then either copy it with Cmd-c or Cut it with >>> Cmd-x and paste it elsewhere with Cmd-v. >>> >>> As for spell checking, Cmd-Semicolon allows you to step through the >>> document one misspelt word at a time which is the way I like to do it. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure >>> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >>> worm-free. 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