How to do spellcheck

Perform spellcheck to find and correct misspellings within the transcript.

See also

For searching for text within the transcript, see How to find and replace text. For searching for closely related steno outlines, see Use Steno Search. For lookup up a dictionary definition for a word/phrase, see Definition Lookup. For querying various online sources on a word/phrase, see Online Lookup.

The Spellcheck page is located in the Toolbar dock.

  1. Select the desired dictionary (en-US by default) and press search. If there is a mis-spelling, the text is shown in the detected box. A list of candidate corrections is also displayed.

  2. To not correct and move on to the next mis-spelling, press Skip.

  3. To not correct and also ignore all other occurrences, use Ignore All. This mis-spelling is remembered for the rest of the session.

  4. If a correction is desired, select a choice from the list, and then press Change.

You can also add other spellchecking dictionaries.