ShareSpell

For Windows

Copyright 1996, Acropolis Software

All Rights Reserved

P.O. Box 5037

Fair Oaks, CA  95628

E-mail: support@acropbbs.com

ShareSpell is a Windows based ASCII text file spelling checker.  It will check the spelling of any ASCII text file.  ShareSpell is not intended to work with Microsoft Write or Wordpad documents.

Features:

Both 16 and 32-bit versions included.

Check the spelling of large files.

Multiple suggestion methods.

Perform simple cut and paste editing.

US and British English Dictionaries.

For more information about the features see:

File Menu

Edit Menu

Spell Menu

Button Bar

Suggestion Dialog

Dictionary Manager

For configuration information see: Configuration


File Menu

Open	Open a new file.

Save	Save the current file.

Save As..	Save the current file with a new name.

Configuration	Configure ShareSpell (See: Configuration)

Exit	Exit ShareSpell.


Edit Menu

Cut	Cut the currently selected text and place in clipboard.

Copy	Copy the currently selected text to the clipboard.

Paste	Paste text in clipboard to document.

Paste As Document	Replace the current document with text in clipboard.

Copy All	Call entire document to the clipboard.


Spell Menu;Dictionary Manager
Spell Menu

Test Document	Test the spelling of the entire document.

Test Selection	Test the spelling of the selected text.

Dictionary Manager	Delete words from the user dictionary.

Use the Dictionary Manager to delete words you have added to the dictionary by mistake or that you no longer wish to have in the dictionary. You can only delete words that you have added. Words in the base dictionaries cannot be deleted.


Configuration

The configuration dialog box allows you to control the behavior of ShareSpell.

Main Dictionary	Select the dictionary you wish to use.

User Dictionary Directory	Select the location of the user added word dictionary.

Extra Suggestions	This will increase the number of suggestion ShareSpell supplies.

Make Backup	When a file is saved the old version with be saved as a .BAK file.

Column Display	Controls how the document is word wrapped.

Default Suggestions	Controls the default types of suggestions.

Default Extension	Select the default extensions used in Open/Save file.


Button Bar

The button bar allows you to perform some of the common operations by just clicking on a button.

The operations are:

Open a new document.

Save the current document.

Check the spelling of the document.

Replace the document with the text in the clipboard.

Copy the entire document to the clipboard, if shorter than 64K

Test the spelling of the selected text.


Suggestions

The Suggestion List is the workhorse of ShareSpell.  It will be displayed each time an incorrectly spelled word is found in the document.

The word in question will be displayed in the 'Not In Dictionary' edit box at the top of the window. You can manually correct the spelling of the word by making changes to it in the 'Change To' edit box. Any changes you make can also be used to cause ShareSpell to generate a new list of suggestions. If you have made a change you can click either the Suggest or Phoneme button to get a new list of suggestions based on any changes you have made to the word.

The list beneath the edit boxes is the list of suggested correct spellings. If the correct spelling in on the list you can double click on it to replace the incorrect word with the correct spelling. Alternately, you can click on the correct spelling once and then click the Change button. If you want to correct the spelling of every occurrence of that word in the entire document, click the Change All button.

The Ignore and Ignore All buttons will cause ShareSpell to do nothing with the word. Ignore will cause it to skip just this occurrence of the word, while the Ignore All button will cause it to ignore the questioned word every place it occurs in the document.

The Add button will add the word to the dictionary. It is useful for adding technical terms or names of people or companies you deal with .

The Cancel button will stop the spell checking.


Dictionary Manager

The Dictionary Manager allows you to remove words you have added to the dictionary. You can select either a single or multiple words (using the Control-Key while clicking) and then click the Delete Selected Words button.

Clicking the OK button will save any changes you have make to the dictionary; while the Cancel button will quit the Dictionary Manager without saving any changes you have made.