Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Check spelling in Adobe Dreamweaver


Sometimes the IDE fails to open spell checker program using menu commands and short cut keys. In such situations restart your IDE.

These screen shots are taken from Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5

How to check spelling in Adobe Dreamweaver?

When you are developing web application or web sites it is very important to use correct spelling and grammar. It makes easy to understand what you have wrote. Because if you have misspelled one or more words, the reader will be confused. So it is important to use correct words in your sentences.

But we can't always write 100% error free paragraph. Because sometimes there can be accident key presses during the typing even you have know the correct spellings to those words. Mistakes can be happen every where. It is human nature. But we can reduce those errors using automated tools. That's why most of Integrated Development Environments include the facility to check spelling in your text. In word processing software, they check spelling, grammar and the style.

Check spelling in your web page using Adobe Dreamweaver.

Dreamweaver has nice tool for checking spelling in your web pages. You can open spell checker by hitting Shift+F7 key combination or selecting menu Commands->Check Spelling.

Check spelling in adobe Dreamweaver

This will open spell check dialog box for you. It has useful features for spell corrections.
spelling check dialog box
When the Dreamweaver founds a word with incorrect spelling, it will highlight the word on your document and show some suggestions. You can pick the correct word from the suggestion list. In most cases the default selection is the correct word. Then click on change button to change only that word. Also you can change all incorrect spelling for that word using single mouse click. To to that click on Change All button. If you think you have spell the word correctly you can ignore the word. Also you can ignore all occurrences of that word by clicking on Ignore All button. Meantime you can also add those words to the custom list by clicking Add to personal button.

Most of the grammar checker software use a dictionary for match your words. So it will show you errors for all words in your HTML document except dictionary words. In such case your name or company name will be shown as an incorrect word. Frequently changing such words is annoying. So you can add those word as your personal words. What you have to do is when displaying errors on such word, click on Add to Personal button. After that IDE never shows errors on that words.



Spellings will be check according to a dictionary. The default dictionary is English (United State). You can change this dictionary in Dreamweaver preferences dialog box.

Click Edit menu next to the File and select Preferences. (Last menu Item). Also you can use the short cut keys for open preferences dialog box. To do that press Ctrl+U key combination. Select General category under the Category list. (By default this is selected).

You can see there is a drop down list to select preferred dictionary at the bottom of the window. You can change the dictionary from here. After you have selected a dictionary click OK.

set preferred dictionary in Dreamweaver

2 comments:

  1. The english editing services are best for those errors that are not accept by teachers. But we can reduce those errors using automated tools.

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