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If you are familiar with Spell Check, this tutorial may not be necessary. Spell Check is available everywhere you can edit data in Horizon. In this session we will cover

1. Starting Spell Check
2. Accepting a change
3. Accepting a change for all occurrences of the same word
4. Ignoring a change
5. Ignoring a change for all occurrences of the same word
6. Adding a word to the dictionary
7. Recognizing when Spell Check is complete
8. Closing Spell Check

1. Starting Spell Check
1.1. Spell Check is opened with a red button on the bottom of HORIZON screens. (Figure 1)
1.2. We have placed Spell Check only on the screens where you will be typing text.

Figure 1

1.3. To start Spell Check, just click the button. (Figure 2)
1.4. Spell Check will run automatically.

Figure 2

2. Accepting a change
2.1. Spell Check will stop when it sees a word it does not recognize.
2.2. It will offer several suggestions.
2.3. To accept a change, highlight the correct suggestion and click Change.
2.4. If the correct suggestion does not appear, type in the correct spelling in the Change to box, and then click Change.

Figure 3

3. Accepting a change for all occurrences of the same word
3.1. If the word appears several times in the document, you can have Spell Check change it everywhere by clicking Change All.
3.2. This changes the word to the new spelling everywhere in the document.
3.3. This may save a little time.

4. Ignoring a change
4.1. Sometimes Spell Check does not recognize a word.
4.2. Click Ignore to accept the word as it is.

Figure 4

5. Ignoring a change for all occurrences of the same word
5.1. Sometimes Spell Check does not recognize a word that appears several times in the document on the screen.
5.2. Click Ignore All to accept the word as it is, everywhere in the document.
5.3. This may save a little time.

6. Adding a word to the dictionary
6.1. Sometimes Spell Check does not recognize a word that you will use regularly.
6.2. Rather than ask Spell Check to ignore it every time it appears, you can click Add to add the word to the dictionary.
6.3. Spell Check will not stumble over it again.

7. Recognizing when Spell Check is complete
7.1. When Spell Check is finished, a popup window will say, Spelling Check Is Complete. (Figure 5)
7.2. Click OK to close Spell Check.

Figure 5

8. Closing Spell Check
8.1. There are 2 ways to close Spell Check before it is finished.
8.1.1. Click Finish.
8.1.2. Click the red X in the top right corner of the Spell Check window.

Figure 6

And that’s all there is to Spell Check!

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