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The Clipboard Spell Checker

Use this dialog box to check and correct your clipboard content.

Activate the Clipboard Spell Checker

Either:

1. Copy the block of text that you want to check into the clipboard.
2. Click the "Clipboard Spell Checker" button in the Main window.

Or,

1. Select a block of text that you want to check.
2. Press <CTRL+SHIFT+A+C> hot key.

Note: You can change the hot key by using the Hot Keys Options dialog box.

Close the Clipboard Spell Checker

Either:

• Click the "OK" button to accept all changes and close the dialog box. Asutype will copy the text into the clipboard and paste it back to your document.
• Or, click the "Cancel" button to cancel the changes. Your document remains unchanged.

Note: This Clipboard Spell Checker is good for plain text only: neither text formatting information nor embedded objects are preserved.

Use the Clipboard Spell Checker

When you activate the Clipboard Spell Checker, Asutype automatically takes the text out of the clipboard, checks and corrects it and displays the result for you to review.

• The automatic corrections are highlighted in blue
• The uncorrected mistakes are highlighted in red
• Click any highlighted mistake/correction to review it. Or you can click the "Next Mistake" button to jump to the next highlighted mistake/correction in order.

Uncorrected mistakes

Uncorrected mistakes are highlighted in red. You can take one of the actions below:

• Click the "Ignore" button to ignore the mistake (or the "Ignore All" button to ignore all instances of the same mistake in the text).
• Click the "Spelling Add" button to add the mistake to the current hot spelling dictionary. The name of the current hot spelling dictionary is listed under the button.
• Click the ">>" button next to the "Spelling Add" to add the mistake to another open spelling dictionary. The newly selected dictionary will become the current hot spelling dictionary.
• Click the "Correct" button to correct the mistake by the correction in the edit box (or the "Correct All" button to correct all instances of the mistake by the correction).
• Click the "Correction Add" button to add the mistake along with the correction in the edit box to the current hot correction list. The name of the current hot correction list is listed under the button.
• Click the ">>" button next to the "Correction Add" to add the mistake along with the correction in the edit box to another open correction list. The newly selected list will become the current hot correction list.

Automatic corrections

Automatic corrections are highlighted in blue. You can take one of the actions below:

• Click the "Accept" button to accept the correction (or the "Accept All" button to accept all instances of the same correction in the text).
• Click the "Restore" button to restore the original word (or the "Restore All" button to restore all instances of the same word in the text).
• Click the "Spelling Add" button to restore the original word and add the word to the current hot spelling dictionary. The name of the current hot spelling dictionary is listed under the button.
• Click the ">>" button next to the "Spelling Add" to restore the original word and add the word to another open spelling dictionary. The newly selected dictionary will become the current hot spelling dictionary.
• Click the "Correct" button to correct the mistake by the correction in the edit box (or the "Correct All" button to correct all instances of the mistake by the correction).
• Click the "Correction Add" button to add the mistake along with the correction in the edit box to the current hot correction list. The name of the current hot correction list is listed under the button.
• Click the ">>" button next to the "Correction Add" to add the mistake along with the correction in the edit box to another open correction list. The newly selected list will become the current hot correction list.