Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: APPLEWORKS GS Message-ID: <8907072017.aa27749@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 8 Jul 89 01:11:45 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 >In article wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) > writes: >>In article <8907021130.aa07701@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> BX667312@CCNYVME.BITNET writes: >> >> Hi..I'm having trouble using the spelling checker on Appleworks GS 1.0 > version2 >Well, while we're on the subject, I've noticed AWGS picking up words that ARE > SPELLED CORRECTLY!!! Any explination for this one? My guess would be that >there > are control codes that have somehow gotten into the document (due to my nimble fingers :) and that these are giving the spellchecker problems, but somehow > this dosen't seem very likely to me... > >Jonah Remember that spell checkers only check works in their dictionaries, which are not complete. The problem really isn't with the spell checker, it's with the dictionary. Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN 32 Hillside Avenue | Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500 (203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein