Spell checking in Keynote

Help please. I'm slowing switching over from using PowerPoint to Keynote 2.02. I'm having problem with spell checking. When I select check spelling from Edit menu, the (I assume) misspelled words are highlighted and underlined, but no dialog box appears with spelling suggestions or other means to correct,other than grabbing my dictionary and manually correcting the spelling error.
I've searched through the small manual and search Apple's Keynote support site. No luck.
Thanks

There are three spelling menu options from the Edit menu. It sounds like you selected the second option, which in my opinion is not very useful. Try selecting one of the other options. The first option "Edit>Spelling>Spelling..." (note the three periods) gives you a dialog box offering spelling suggestions. The third option, "Edit>Spelling>Check Spelling as You Type" will underline all of the mispeled words in red.

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