MarcySB Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I'm not quite sure how to explain this. I went under Text/Spelling to Check Spelling. The first questionable word was highlighted, but there was nowhere to do anything about it. I went under Text/Spelling again and selected Show Check Options. Shouldn't these be together, for example when I select check spelling, the show options box just opens? Also, there was no indication that spell check was completed. It just kept choosing the last word it questioned, which happened to be a last name, every time I clicked ignore. I've been doing this type of document layout for more than 30 years, since PageMaker 2.0, and this just seems a little unintuitive to me. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 It is unintuitive to what we all may be used to but we may have to get used to it if that is the way Serif wants it to remain. All you can really do is make a thread in the Publisher suggestion forum rather than this bug forum as it's not really a bug. From what I have learnt so far...Text > Spelling > Check Spelling Will simply find the next misspelt word, which you can then right-click on and choose what to do with it. Useful (I guess) for checking an individual word, but you would need to do it multiple times to check an entire document. So not designed for that. Text > Spelling > Show Spelling Options Runs the actual spell checker across the entire document and you are right, once it has found the last misspelt word it should not allow you to keep clicking ignore as that is just irritating and confusing. Suggestions: In an ideal (novice friendly) world and space permitting... Learn should be renamed to Add to Dictionary Guess should be renamed to Show Alternatives Text > Spelling > Show Spelling Options should be renamed to Text > Spelling > Run Spell Checker Text > Spelling > Check Spelling should be renamed to Text > Spelling > Find Next Misspelt Word Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 The "Spell check" command only makes sense to me with a shortcut. And I agree with @carl123: The menu commands should be reconsidered (not only for novices). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcySB Posted April 24, 2019 Author Share Posted April 24, 2019 Thank you both for your answers. carl123 - I'll look for the publisher suggestion forum. I did not see it yesterday. I'll post there from now on things that are just suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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