Spell checking a forum post is annoying ...

this is what happens when i spellcheck a forum post, it is a little annoying, as the word that is the correct word is obviously under the pop up window on top. any suggstions anyone, or is it something i have to put up with ?.
tim

Hello:
I do not like the spell checker either. However, the overlaid window is, I think, a result of you right-clicking somehow. If you left-click the underlined word, the other menu does not appear.
Incidentally, if you want to avoid the built-in spell forum checker, click on the underlined word while holding the control and option keys down (right click does not do this, for some reason).
Barry

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I'd like to be able to enforce spell checking of selected fields in the forms that I've created using LiveCycle Designer 8.2 at run time, as opposed to design time. I understand the version LCD 8 has a nifty new spell checker for form designers. But I want to spell check the data entered by users using Acrobat Reader. And I want to enforce the spell checking automatically on selected fields only.
Presently it seems that users filling in my forms, must know how to manually right-click on each field and select "Spell Check" from the resulting dialog box in order to check for spelling errors in the data the user has entered in the form.
I would like to discover a way to enforce spell checking in selected fields, just as I am able to do in forms created using Acrobat Pro. In Acrobat Pro, I can set a property for each field to require spell checking. but that feature seems to be missing in Livecycle Designer.
I've check the Object model for XFA forms hoping that I might find a method I can call with a Javascript, to check spelling based on an event such as onBlur. But I haven't found a spell check method.
Am I missing something simple? Is there a way to set each field to be spell checked when a user is filling in the form using the free Acrobat Reader?
Our users are not sophisticated and requiring them to spell check each field separately just won't cut it...
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-David Bartholomew

Hi David,
Two things...
At design time set the locale of the form to one that Acrobat spell checks. For example English (US) and English (UK) locales have spell checkers; however English (Ireland) does not. Check the Warnings tab to see if spell checking is supported for your locale.
If your form locale supports spell checking then you can go to the button script below.
If you form locale does NOT support spell checking then Stephanie has a great work around to force spell checking (http://forums.adobe.com/message/2233945#2233945).
Bring a regular button onto the form and in the click event have the following:
app.execMenuItem("Spelling:Check Spelling");
Which will open the spell checker for all fields. Thanks to Paul for extracting all of the accessible menu items (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1912914#1912914).
Good luck,
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Spell checking on Jive forums

OK, this may have already been discussed, but I swear I looked. I searched "spell check" and didn't find it. If I missed it, please just point me in that direction and lock this thread.
Thanks.
<rant>
These are the Adobe forums. Why does the spell checker flag the names of Adobe products like "Lightroom"? Why are names of codecs or formats like tif flagged. Heck, why is "codec" flagged?
Why is Photoshop flagged if I type it photoshop? You know it is now a verb as well as a noun.
It just seems wrong to me that I have to look through a long post to find the errors only to find out that the only errors are names of Adobe products or commonly used words in a video or photo editing world.
Doesn't Adobe have any pull with the Jive folks at all?
</rant>

Jacob Bugge wrote:
Steven,
This archived thread seems to indicate that specll checking is by browser only.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3296840#3296840
I missed it back then, but now a search brought it up.
In FireFox and Seamonkey That I use. These forums don't even allow Mozilla's Dictionary builtin or costom Dictionary for words added.
You have to use the ABC Check mark symbol and it doesn't allow remembering custom workd by an add command you have to simply ignore the word. There should be allowances for adding Custom words. And being in electronics medium Jive should know the word Codec (codec is a word).
The Jive software should be setup to allow the use of the browser's Dictionary which often times is larger and can allow for custom words.

Forum Software Spell Check

Please forgive the cross post as I appended this question to a posting in a different forum. Why does the spell checker on this board not recognize the word "Lenovo"? Seems kind of silly that after all this time the dictionary hasn't been updated. The "Learn" function seems to be local, and disappears after a cookie cleanup.
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Ramón G Castañeda wrote:
Few of us are qualified to read a crash report, but the Adobe engineers who do need the entire crash report, not just the few lines you pasted here. Don't try pasting a whole crash report here, just make sure it gets sent to Adobe and/or Apple when the crash actually happens.
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With 4.5 GB try setting the allowance to 70% or even 80%. Don't bother quoting absolute numbers, they change dynamically all the time, it's not a static figure. You are just allowing (not allocating) Photoshop to use up to that percentage of available memory at any given time, after the OS and any other running applications have taken what they need.
Understood. I've never seen the figure change so I was assuming it doesn't. The 2150 figure is 70%.
More meaningful would be to know how much available space you have on your boot drive and whether you have a dedicated, physically separate drive designated as your primary scratch disk drive, etc.
As I mentioned above, the boot drive has 115GB free, the scratch disk has 103GB free. In addition, the drive designated as the scratch disk is also the drive that has the working files on it.
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Trivial forum spell-check annoyance

Feel free to nominate this post as the dumbest whine of the week, but would it be possible to get the forum spell-checker to recognize obvious apple-specific words, like 'AppleScript'. I type that word a lot in responses, and I get grumpy seeing it red-lined all the time.
And no, adding them to my local spell-check dictionary doesn't solve the problem. This is server-side.
Obvious (to me) additions:
AppleScript
Automator
Macbook
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iPhone
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... (I'm sure there are others)
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... (I'm sure there are others)
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Spell Check in New Forums- How The Heck does it work?

Can somebody please tell me how the spell check works in this new forum format? I click on the abc icon and it does nothing. I do a two finger click on a word that is misspelled and it give me Insert Options. I really like the new format but hate the spell check. Can anyone offer advise? Thanks.

The built-in ASC spell checker is -- to put it kindly -- quirky. First, you must turn it on using the 'abc' tool on the right in the editor toolbar. (When it's on, it highlights.) But it won't stay turned on if you click on the tool before you enter any text -- it will just tell you that no misspellings were found & won't stay on. It also sometimes fails to check the last word if followed by a space. You can tell it to ignore misspellings, but you can't tell it to learn words because the spell-checking dictionary is actually on the servers running the site, not on your Mac or PC.
But from your remarks, you probably aren't even using the built-in checker. Instead, I suspect you are trying to use the far superior system-wide one built into OS X. The problem with that is the ASC editing tools are powered by Javascript supplied by the Jive SBS software running the site. Because that is platform independent it doesn't know anything about OS X's contextual menu (which includes suggestions for misspellings, the Dictionary lookup, & so on).
So to make a long story short, what happens when you try to right click on a word the OS X checker has underlined in red, instead you get the Javascript's response to a right click, which brings up the editor's insert/alignment popup menu instead of the OS X contextual menu.
The solution is to control click on the word -- believe it or not, within the ASC editor window a right click & a control click are not the same thing! You literally have to hold down the control key on the keyboard when you click to bypass the Javascript's right click response.
To make things that much more confusing, this only applies if the pointer is not over empty space in the editor window, which in this case excludes lines that have any text on them, including invisible text like spaces or returns. (To see what I mean, drag the tab at the bottom right of the editor window down so there is a lot of empty space below what you have typed. In this empty area, right & control clicks both bring up the OS X contextual menu, but anywhere in the text you have typed, they behave differently.)
In short, the problem is not that Apple has changed how the buttons or clicks work, it is that the new software that runs the site (not developed by Apple) does.
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New discussions - spell check my post?

I dont seem to be able to check the spelling of my posts before posting anymore?! I have had a look round the help section and my settings but couldnt see anyhting to help me! there used to be an option before posting - very helpful as i am a bit bad at spelling! Seeing as this is my main hangout thought i'd ask you guys.
thanks.

Becki
Hi. If you want an easy way to check your spelling in any environment on your Mac, just turn on the spell check feature in OS X.
This is only available when you are typing into a text box (at a website like this or Text Edit etc.), if there is no active text cursor, it is unavailable. I use it all the time and helps a lot.
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~M
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In gmail the spell checker underlines the ends of words that are spelled correctly. Annoying at best.

running firefox 16.0.1 on pc with windows 7. This seems to have started with new version upgrade. In gmail the spell checker highlights last parts of words that are spelled correctly.

You probably see this bug (fixed in Firefox 21):
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812638 bug 812638] - (font_size_bloat) TB is inserting/adding loads of redundant/incorrect/random tags in the middle of corrected words (partially erased with backspace or DEL, then retyped) with certain valid font size attributes in HTML message source; causes spelling issues
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790475 bug 790475] - Spell checking broken (fixed in Firefox 19)
(please do not comment in bug reports: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html])

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Every time FF updates, it forces me to download and install the spell check dictionary for English. It makes me just choose to use another browser since more often than not its opening facebook and I like spell check when I use fb. Is there any solution?

What Firefox locale do you use?
Is that the en-US version or another locale like the French locale?
You shouldn't lose installed dictionaries and other installed extensions when you update Firefox unless you would reset Firefox or a new profile got created for other reasons like problem with the profiles.ini file.
Are there otherwise problems with updating that you notice?
Note that in case you do not need all four French dictionaries then you can remove others and only keep the ones you need.
You can find the dictionary files in the dictionaries folder of the extension in the extensions folder in the Firefox profile folder or possibly in the Firefox program folder if you use a French Firefox locale (don't know if that locale includes a dictionary).
*[email protected]
You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

Spell check is the most annoying thing ever!

I have seriously come close to hurling this phone at the wall...!
because of the autocorrect spell check BS feature...
when is apple going to give me the ability to turn it off?
I ABSOLUTELY HATE A DEVICE THAT TRIES TO THINK FOR ME
IF I SPEEL SOMETHING WORGN - THAT IS THE WAY I WANT IT!

I'd like to see them improve the "suggestions" (just hire someone from blackberry for this, my (work) BB curve is light years better). iOS almost never gets it right.
I think that would make the fact that it is a 'click-to-deny' system so much more tolerable. I get so frustrated when it wants to correct a word I'm spelling the way I intended to, to some ridiculous word. Other times my word is only wrong by one letter and the correct word isn't even a suggestion.
Spellcheck/autocorrect and notifications are easily the worst two features of iOS.
Message was edited by: KMac1

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:
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How to troubleshoot issues that Spell Check is not working in Outlook 2013

When composing a new message in Outlook 2013, we may notice that Spell Checker does not recognize misspelled words. When we enter a completely garbage word in Outlook, it won’t be marked as misspelled with a red wave underline. When encountering such issue,
we may follow the troubleshooting guide below to correct it.
1. Make sure you are not typing in the signature area.
Outlook doesn't perform a spell check in the signature area, so if this is the case, spell check won’t work. To confirm if you are typing in the signature area, right click in the area you are typing, if you see a menu listed all you signatures instead of
the normal context menu, then you are not typing in the email body.
If you want spell check work in signature area, use Quick Parts instead of Signature. For more information, see
Quick Parts.
2. Check the Set Proofing Language option.
In Outlook, click New Email to open a new message, click
REVIEW tab > Language > Set Proofing Language, a dialog titled
Language will open.
Please first make sure English (United States) is shown above the double line. If not,
you must enable the language for it to be available to check spelling.
Second, make sure “Do not check spelling or grammar” check box is not selected.
Note: If this method fixes the problem, repeat steps 1 through 3 to reopen to the
Language dialog box, and then click Set As Default.
3. Enable Check spelling as you type.
To enable the option in Outlook, go to File > Options > Mail, click Spelling and Autocorrect button. In the Editor Options dialog, select the check box labelled “Check spelling as you type”.
4. Make sure that you are not using a standalone version of Outlook or mixed versions of Word and Outlook.
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5. A registry key exists overriding the spell checker
To remove the registry key, please follow these:
Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure that you
back up the registry before you modify it.
a. Press Windows key + R to open the Run command.
b. In the Run box, type regedit, and then press Enter.
c. Locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Override
d. Delete or rename the subkey.
e. Exit Registry Editor. Restart Outlook.
6. Recreate the NormalEmail.dotm and Normal.dotm template
If the two templates above are corrupt, this issue may also happen. To fix it, please browse to:
drive:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates
Rename the two templates, then restart Outlook to see the result.
7. Problematic add-in
Add-ins may cause various issues in Outlook, so if you have tried all the suggestions and still no luck, try starting Outlook in safe mode to see if a problematic add-in is the culprit. To do this, exit Outlook, press Windows key + R to open the Run
command, then type outlook /safe and press Enter. If the problem disappeared in safe mode, then go to File > Options > Add-ins and disable the suspicious add-in to resolve the problem.
If you have any comments, welcome to post in the forum. Thank you.
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Not all locales come with a dictionary installed for licensing reasons. 
If you do not have the en-US locale then check that you have a dictionary installed (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and selected. 
 
You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu. 
Also make sure that [X]"Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu has a tick. 
You can also try to toggle the "Check Spelling" item off and on again. 
 
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Spell_checking and [[Using the spell checker]] 
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries

Spell check function in my iworks pages does not work, how do I fix this?

I have a new IMac (intel) and I am struggling learning to use the ipage part of the iwork suite. There does not appear to be a spell check feature working, since I'm trying to create some new documents, this is a real hassle. And does anyone know how to do a cut and paste of images from the web. I'm doing a presentation, have permission to use the photos and can't get it to work!! sigh I beginning to think I should have paid the xtra bucks and bought the window suite version, at least I know where they hid the bells and whistles in that one.
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Greetings,
For questions on Pages post in the Pages forum: https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages
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