Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 2-17. Out of the box, FileMaker uses a Spelling Language that matches the language of
your operating system. But you can use a different language if you prefer. Just select it from this
pop-up menu. As you can see, FileMaker even has a medical language dictionary that keeps it from
balking at all your ER terms. Use the New button to create as many user dictionaries as you want
and then select the one you want to use for a particular database.
User Dictionaries
Remember from
Spell Checking as You Type
when you clicked the Learn button to teach
FileMaker a new word? When you did so, behind the scenes, FileMaker actually added that
word to the
user dictionary
, which is separate from the normal dictionary that comes with
FileMaker.
You can even have multiple user dictionaries for different purposes. For example, if you have
two databases, one that tracks your apparel products and one that stores information about
tools, you could keep two user dictionaries. The tools version may include words like “mm”
and “pcs” while the apparel version would have “XXL” and “CottonPoly.”
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In reality, it's nine times easier to just use one user dictionary, so you don't have to worry about
which one is selected. It doesn't hurt to have thousands of words in your user dictionary, but not
having enough makes spell checking more time consuming. Nothing is more boring than wading
through the same dozen correctly spelled words over and over. But if you want more than one dic-
tionary, you can have it.
