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reads “Chciago.” All the spell checking commands are found under the Edit→Spelling sub-
menu.
Spell Checking with Menu Commands
Sometimes you want to fly through data entry and then do your spell checking later. If this is
your preference, you have three choices:
▪ Choose Edit→Spelling→Check Selection to spell check selected text only. This method
comes in handy when you're pretty sure a short passage, or even a single word, is wrong.
Highlight the text you want to check and then choose the menu command.
▪ To check an entire record, choose Edit→Spelling→Check Record.
▪ Finally, you may want to check spelling on many records at once. In this case, choose
Edit→Spelling→Check All. When you choose this option, you're telling the spell check-
er to look at every field of every record in the current found set (choose Records→Show
All Records first if you want to check every record in the database).
No matter how many records you're checking, FileMaker opens the same Spelling dialog
box shown in Figure 2-16 .
NOTE
Even if, by the magic of planetary alignment, you have no misspellings, FileMaker still opens the
Spelling dialog box. In this case, though, it says, “Status: Finished Spelling” in small print in the
middle of the busy window. You're supposed to spot this right away and know the program is done.
Of course, if you're like most people, you stare blankly at the screen for 30 seconds trying to figure
out what went wrong. Save yourself the confusion: Check the Status line when the window first ap-
pears. If FileMaker is finished, click Done.
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