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Note: Spell Checker is based on third party software and is a chargeable Add-On.
The Spell Checker functionality enables Survey Managers to check all entered text (both questions and answers) in a survey for spelling errors. The functionality allows you to check one question at a time.
Using the Spell Checker
To check a question for spelling errors:
- Right-click on the question in the Survey tree and choose Spell Check from the menu.
- In the Spell Checker page toolbar, click the Spell Check button to display the Spell Checker window - .
- Select a suggestion and click Change or Change All to move to the next error, or edit the word "manually", as desired.
- Ignore - the current occurrence of the spelling error will be ignored.
- Ignore All - all occurrences of the spelling error will be ignored in a text field (title, text, instruction, answers).
- Change - The current occurrence of the spelling error will be changed to that selected in the Suggestions field.
- Change All - all occurrences of the spelling error will be changed in the current field (title, text, instruction, answers) to that selected in the Suggestions field.
- Show Options - the Spell Check options are displayed below the button row - .
- OK - when you are happy with the text, applies the changes and closes the window.
- Cancel- no changes are applied to the current question, and the Spell Checker window is closed.
- Once you have completed checking the texts in the current question, click OK to apply the changes to the question, close the window and return to the Spell Checker page in Authoring.
- You can now click Next Question to move on through the Survey, and again click Spell Check to open the Spell Checker window in the event you find an error.
- When you have finished, click OK to apply the final changes and close the window. In the Spell Checker page, you must then click Save to save the corrections and to apply them to the Survey.
The Spell Checker page opens, highlighting any words that the dictionary does not recognize - .
Figure 1 - The administration window for the Spell Check functionality
All text fields of the question are displayed. The figure above shows a Single question. Note that by default the first survey language is displayed in the Spell Checker page. If you want to check spelling for other survey languages (go to Supported Languages for more information), go to the Language selection field in the center of the lower frame of the window and select the language you wish to work with.
If you wish to relocate this window, click in the window header and drag it to the desired location.
Figure 2 - Using the spell checker
The first spelling error the Spell Checker finds will be highlighted. The un-recognized word will be displayed in red text in the Not in dictionary field, and any available suggestions will be listed in the Suggestions field.
The button functions are as follows:
Figure 3 - The Settings window
In the Options window, choose the criteria you want the Spell Checker to use when searching for spelling errors. To save the selected settings, click the Hide Options button. The settings will be saved and the options area will close.
If a reusable answer list is used in a question, and there is a spelling error in the answer list, the correction will be applied to the list itself (in Scales and Lists), and to all questions in which this list is used.
Supported Languages
The following languages are supported by Spell Checker (in alphabetical order):
| Language | Country |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | South Africa |
| Bulgarian | Bulgaria |
| Catalan | Spain |
| Croatian | Croatia |
| Czech | Czech Republic |
| Danish | Denmark |
| Dutch | Netherlands |
| English | Australia |
| English | Canada |
| English | New Zealand |
| English | United Kingdom |
| English | United States |
| French | France |
| German | Germany |
| German | Switzerland |
| Hebrew | Israel |
| Indonesian | Indonesia |
| Irish | Ireland |
| Italian | Italy |
| Lithuanian | Lithuania |
| Malay | Malaysia |
| Norwegian Bokmaal | Norway |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Norway |
| Polish | Poland |
| Portuguese | Brazil |
| Portuguese | Portugal |
| Romanian | Romania |
| Russian | Russia |
| Scottish Gaelic | Scotland |
| Slovenian | Slovenia |
| Spanish | Mexico |
| Spanish | Spain |
| Swedish | Sweden |
| Ukrainian | Ukraine |