Enabling spell check

Enabling the spell check option is a good practice to ensure high quality. Spell check is supported in Windows and if you have MS Office installed.

To enable spell check:

1. Open Wordfast Pro and click .
   The TXML perspective appears.

2. Click Edit > Preferences > Spelling.
   The Preferences (Filtered) Spelling dialog appears.
   
   
    

3. Select Enable spell checking checkbox.
   The Hunspell spellcheck engine is automatically selected.

4. Select Check Spelling as you type checkbox. (Optional)

5. If enabling spell check for Portuguese, select Portuguese Modes from the drop down list. The options are:

• Pre-Reform: traditional spellings

• Post-Reform: new spellings

• Both: traditional and new spellings

6. Click OK.
   The Spell check option is enabled.
   Note: The option for choosing spell check languages is available during installation.

7. To use spell check, click Edit > Spell Check or press F7.
   The Spelling options appear. An example screenshot is given below.
   
   
    

8. The options available are:

   Use	to...
   Ignore once	ignore the suggestions for the highlighted word or phrase.
   Ignore All	ignore the suggestions for highlighted word or phrase in the entire file.
   Add to Dictionary	add the word or phrase to the dictionary.
   Change	change the existing word or phrase to the selected suggestion.
   Change All	change all instances of the existing word or phrase to the selected suggestion.
   Cancel	cancel spell checking.