SPELL CHECK IN DREAMWEAVER

how do i set dreamweaver up so it underlines a word that is
misspelled right away and allows me to choose the right word to
replace?

Suggest it to them -
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"ace_away" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately it's been lacking that feature. It would
be nice if they got
> it added for the next release.
>
>
> "WebGuyDesign" <[email protected]>
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>> how do i set dreamweaver up so it underlines a word
that is misspelled
>> right away and allows me to choose the right word to
replace?
>
>

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Spell Check and Ellipsis

I'm writing out a story on Dreamweaver, and I am frequently writing dialogue with ellipses (those triple periods indicating a pause) mid-sentence. I've been taught by multiple sources on grammar that an ellipsis at the end of the sentence is followed by a space, whereas one in the middle of the sentence is not. However, Dreamweaver's spell check seems to have issue with ellipses that have no spaces between them and the words before and after them.
It almost seems to disregard the ellipsis entirely and mistakenly see the two words it's written between as one jumbled word. I have to hit ignore every time it brings an instance up while checking my spelling. Does anyone know what causes this in Dreamweaver's spell check, and is there any way to work around it so I don't have to keep telling it to ignore every instance?

Ben has your solution.
In order to type an ellipsis on my Mac, I just hold down the [option] button and press ";" and I get an ellipsis. But not on a website. In many cases, the character that comes up on some browsers is a black diamond (actually the color is whatever you are using in your style sheet for the font color) with a question mark in it.
This is to say, don't use an ellipsis character. Use the HTML code for the character, which will be rendered properly in all browsers. The code for an ellipsis is … or … which must be entered in your Code View.
Now, what you could do is type an ellipsis character and do Dreamweaver's Find and Replace to correctly replace the character with the code. Make sure that Find is searching for Source Code.
I don't use spell check in Dreamweaver. I keep a TextEdit or Notepad application open for words I'm not sure about and check spelling outside of the application. Dreamweaver CS3 did not have spell check and so I have retained that workflow for my documents.
-Mark
PS: I do recommend that you keep, as a reference, the following web page in your bag of tricks with respect to punctuation, math and other symbols in HTML:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp
Added link to W3 Schools symbol reference page.

Dreamweaver CS6 crashing on spell check of whole document, Windows 8.1

After using Dreamweaver CS6 happily for quite a while, it is now crashing regularly when I try to spell check more than a very short section.
I recently updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and was prompted to update Dreamweaver afterwards, which I did.
The Windows log file shows that it is MSVCR100.dll that is the faulting module.
<<begin event log quote>>
Faulting application name: Dreamweaver.exe, version: 12.0.3.5861, time stamp: 0x50be54e4
Faulting module name: MSVCR100.dll, version: 10.0.40219.325, time stamp: 0x4df2be1e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000fea8
Faulting process id: 0xbe0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf13aa16a93659
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS6\Dreamweaver.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCR100.dll
Report Id: cd5a227f-7f9d-11e3-beab-a41f72680171
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
<<end log file quote>>
I used the command prompt window to check for file validity, sfc /scannow but it did not find any problems at all.
What can I do now??

That seems to have worked. But I did not find files with the names you suggested.
I did find an article while searching for DW Cache that gave paths for a lot of different versions of Windows and of Dreamweaver, http://www.dmxzone.com/go/16740/clearing-dreamweaver-s-cache/
Using that I was able to select WinfileCache and delete it. On restarting Dreamweaver CS6, spell check seems to be working,
Thanks so much for the suggestion.
Now if I can just remember it the next time something messes up! :-)

Spell Check Dreamweaver cs4

For spell check in CS4 besides "shift F7", is there a way to setup so that spell checks while I am typing ?
TIA
Carl,

That's a bummer...
I was thinking of switching to Dreamweaver because it's Live View and limited excess tagging.
I"m rethinking that now...
I work in numerous systems that require web based editing of text (Drupal for one). These web based editors are a pain when it comes to spell checking! I type fast and some of my fingers are actually faster than others. My typical typo is a word that has all the correct letters, but with a couple letters mixed (for example, I might have an 'i' before a 't' instead of after).
I've come to rely on Word helping me to deal with this idiosyncrasy by underlining the misspellings as I've gotten used to for most other editing environments that operate locally on my PC. I'm going to have to re-think that process now... I may just stick with Web Expressions which is better about extraneous tags than Front Page was, but doesn't display the Drupal templates as I'd prefer.
I agree that DW should have the in-line spell check - it would not require any additional HTML in the code, would help the developer significantly and is basically a check-list item for most other editing environments where text is a key form of communication!
I understand there is a spell checker that can be done in batch mode - that's great. However, most of the environments where I do my editing (including many, but not all web pages through some Google add-ins) on both Mac and Windows systems have in-line spell checking...

Spell Check All Pages in Dreamweaver CS4

With a new converted web site of over 150 pages I need to spell check the pages.
Is there any extension or method to spell check all of the pages at once?
Thanks

Unfortunately, you can’t do it. As I have noted before, Adobe should be ashamed of itself that I have to import my entire site into FrontPage 98 in order to get an effective spell-check. I get laughed at for using FrontPage, but it's a far better program, sadly.

Multi-language spell check?

Hello all,
new to Dreamweaver (CS5, Mac), but with 15+ years of experience with HTML and GoLive, I have some difficulties finding my way. Not all my q.s are answered in the help, The Missing Manual or the FAQs. Like this one:
I have a multi-language site, and even some of the individual pages are multi-language. Is it true that the DW CS5 spellchecker gets the dictionary to use for the check from the prefs? I have a language info in all of my pages (<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="...">); is it true that DW does not use this information?
To be specific: If I want to check several pages, some of which are all-English, others all-German, it looks as if I have to change the preferences between spell checks; is that true?
It also looks as if, when a page contains more than one language, I have no real check option at all; true?
Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to give; so far, the DW experience has not been pure joy. Some things were *so* much easier and faster in GoLive! (Well, not multi-language spell checks, I concede that.)
Lutz Pietschker

No, you cannot get around switching prefs for the language when switching language. It would be good if it could work like in InDesign where you can mix languages however you like and always have it spellcheck in the correct language. But it cannot.
(I agree to your last paragraph - many things were so much easier, flexible and faster in GoLive - and I haven't even mentioned the site management which as I see it is next to non-existent in DW).

Spell Check Entire Site

Hi,
Just created over 300 pages in Dreamweaver, and now want to
spell check. Is there a way to spell check the entire site? I can't
seriously believe that the only way to do it is to open each page.
After all if Find and Replace works on all files why doesn't Spell
Check?
What is everyone else doing? Is there an extension I need to
install?
Thanks much
CC

Eh? Are you using DW12? 8)
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"Katsuey" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f8b2g1$bnp$[email protected]..
>> Just created over 300 pages in Dreamweaver, and now
want to spell check.
>> Is
>> there a way to spell check the entire site? I can't
seriously believe
>> that the
>> only way to do it is to open each page. After all if
Find and Replace
>> works on
>> all files why doesn't Spell Check?
>
> Use Text | Batch Spell Check and then select the entire
current
> local site if not already selected.
>

CS5 DW Spell Checker

I get an error message that says "The spell checker could not be initialized." How do I fix that?

Hello,
did you follow this here (see in particular, point 1):
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WSc78c5058ca073340dcda9110b1f693f21-7cc8a .html
Hans-Günter

Spell check grayed out

For some reason spell check is grayed out in my Dreamweaver CS5. I've tried it in both design and source code view; same problem. Anyone have a suggestion?

Reboot. Could be a glitch caused by low memory.
If that doesn't help, this solution is from the DW FAQ.
"...unexplained problems
If Dreamweaver is acting erratically, or if you see a message saying "the following JavaScript error(s) occurred", it's usually a sign of a corrupt cache file. The first thing to try should always be to delete the file cache. If that doesn't work, delete your personal Configuration folder. Full instructions are in Deleting a corrupted cache file."
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I can't use word because a box keeps popping up saying that it can't find the spell check files?

I open Word and there is a pop-up message saying that word cannot start the spelling checker because the files may be missing and to make sure that the spell checker files are installed or use the Microsoft installer to install spell checker. I have never had this problem with Word before and spell check has always been fine. What should I do?

Since word is made by Microsoft you should post your question on their own forums for their Mac software as Apple Communities only provide support for Apple products:
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

Pages 08 Spell Checker Not Working

When I started using Pages 08, I turned on the Spelling --> Check Spelling As You Type. One day it stopped to work, in fact I do not know whether it is working or not since the red lines that highlighted incorrectly-spelled text no longer appeared. I tried turning the feature on and off several times, and fiddled with Text Inspector, but have foind no solution to this. Please advise, anyone. Thanks.

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Pages 08 spell checker not working after pasting in a windows document.

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I figured it out. The language was set to none in the inspector

Pages 08 - Spell check as you type has stopped working

Hi,
My Pages 08, which is ticked to 'check spelling whilst typing' is no longer checking spelling as I type.
It was working fine yesterday, but has stopped today.
Moreover, it's not even spell checking when I ask it to do it manually.
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Mont3

I didn't install the British English language on my machines so I can't check the behavior of Pages when this language is the first one.
Here is the brute force way describer for the Blank template used in WP mode.
It would be the same for others.
ctrl click the Pages.app icon
show package's contents
open Contents
open Resources
open Templates
open Blank
ctrl click Blank.template
duplicate index-iso.xml.gz or index-trad.xml.gz in a safe area (folder named Pages-Blank-template ).
double click index-iso.xml.gz or index-trad.xml.gz
You will get index-iso.xml or index-trad.xml
Open it with TextEdit or TextWrangler for instance.
Search for
<sf:language><sf:null/></sf:language>
Replace all occurences by
<sf:language><sf:string sfa:string="en_GB"/></sf:language>
save index-iso.xml or index-trad.xml
for English, the replacement string would be:
<sf:language><sf:string sfa:string="en"/></sf:language>
for French it would be:
<sf:language><sf:string sfa:string="fr"/></sf:language>
for Spanish it would be:
<sf:language><sf:string sfa:string="sp"/></sf:language>
The next time you will use this template, it will default to British English everywhere.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 16 septembre 2008 16:44:00)

System-wide spell check will not work

Hi,
I can't get the system-wide spell check to work on my MacBook Pro with the Command + Shift + ; (semicolon) keys. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? The Spell-Check on the Fly will work.
Thank You,
Guy

I was able to zap the pram and that solved the problem.
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I changed to firefox because I wanted spell checker. After updating to 4.0.1 this no longer works. I cant find a version that does work with the new firefox. Is it time i went back to explorer?

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