Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

Spell Checking

You spend a lot of time perfecting your web pages, making sure that the images look great, the text is properly formatted, and everything aligns to make a beautiful visual presentation. But one step is often forgotten, especially given the hyper-speed development process of the Web—making sure your web content is free of typos.

Spelling mistakes look unprofessional and imply a lack of attention to detail. Who wants to hire an “illustraightor” or “Web dezyner?” Dreamweaver’s spell checking feature can help.

About Dictionaries

Before you start spell checking, make sure you have the right dictionary selected. Dreamweaver comes with 36 of them, ranging from Bulgarian to Turkish (including three variants of English, and four of German). When it checks your spelling, the program compares the text in your document against the list of words in one of these dictionaries.

To specify a dictionary, choose Edit→Preferences (Dreamweaver→Preferences) or press Ctrl+U (⌘-U) to open the Preferences dialog box. Select the General category and then, from the Spelling Dictionary drop-down menu at the bottom of the window, choose a language.

Performing a Spell Check

Once you select a dictionary, open the web page whose spelling you want to check. You can check as much or as little of the text as you like, as follows:

1. Highlight the text you want to check (which can even be a single word).

   If you want to check the entire document, make sure you have nothing selected in the document window (one good ...