Office 2007 Bible

Spell Checking

Typos have no place in professional business documents, whether delivered electronically or in hard copy form. You always want to put your best foot forward and make sure that your files are attractive, clear and easy to follow, and typo free.

By default, many of the Office applications quietly check your spelling for you as you type. If you see a tell-tale red squiggle appear underneath a word, that means that the application thinks you’ve misspelled the word—according to the application’s own dictionary, anyway. If you see a wavy red underline underneath a word, right-click the word. As shown in Figure 3-25, you can then click a correction in the shortcut menu that appears to replace the typo with the correction, or click Add to Dictionary so that the word is no longer flagged as a misspelling.

Figure 3-25. Right-click any word with a red wavy outline and then click a correction.

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If you’ve finished creating the document and have moved on to the fine-tuning stage, you should always run a complete spell check to catch any typos that you may have missed earlier. Use these steps to run the check, and use the most common options for dealing with potential misspellings:

1.	Press Ctrl+Home. This step moves to the beginning of the document so that the spell checking operation will start from there.
2.	Click the Review tab on the Ribbon.
3.	Click ...