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Spell check your reports

Introduction

Improve the quality of your reports with this feature that highlights mistakes and suggests alternative words to use.

All text in a report is checked, but not the variables. As you type, any words that are not recognised are highlighted with a red underline to indicate a possible spelling problem.

Report Designer is set to use either a UK or US English dictionary when it is installed, according to your PC's local settings.

Note: The spell checker will detect misspelt words, but not punctuation errors or grammatical errors such as using the wrong word; for example, typing 'where' instead of 'were', or 'there' instead of 'their'.

You can

• Check spelling automatically as you type.
• Check spelling all at once when you have finished the report.
• Add words to the spell checker dictionary.

Using the spell checker

• To check spelling as you type, right-click the highlighted word and select an alternative word from the list.
• To check spelling in the whole report, choose Tools > Check Spelling.
• To check which dictionary you are using (English UK or US), choose Tools > Options and check the Spell Check Language option.

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