topic Re: Spell Checker in Documentation

Spell Checker

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:29:13 GMT

I am curious what "drawings" spell checker looks at. If I turn on and unlock all layers, will spell checker look at all of my plan, section/elevation, and detail views? Whats the best way to check all of the spelling in a drawing set and be assured that all words have been checked. I have searched the archives, read what comes up in the help menu and ran a few tests but am still a bit baffled. Thanks for any insight.

Re: Spell Checker

Link — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:09:46 GMT

Hi Mike

Have you checked out the Spell Checker Preferences (available from the Spell Checker dialog)?

I'm pretty sure it will check all S/E's regardless of what Stories you have selected.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:17:48 GMT

Thanks Link. That probably accounted for the different # of words that were checked from different windows.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:28:31 GMT

Link wrote:
Hi Mike

Have you checked out the Spell Checker Preferences (available from the Spell Checker dialog)?

I'm pretty sure it will check all S/E's regardless of what Stories you have selected.

Cheers,
Link.

I have checked the LABEL but still the spell checker does not find some obvious words miss spelled like USEE!
Any other settings?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:35:19 GMT

is USEE written in all capitals? I'm not sure about the ArchiCAD spell checker, but most spell checkers will overlook words written completely in capitals, they typically assume they're acronyms... just a thought

cheers,
dan

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:48:27 GMT

I've noticed that the spell checker works with out text which is in all capitol letters but if we have more than just one label tool text selected it misses misspelled words.

If only it actually worked like it was inteded!

Michele

Re: Spell Checker

Link — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:54:19 GMT

"...but if we have more than just one label tool text selected it misses misspelled words..."

If only it actually worked like it was inteded!

But that is how it is intended. It will correct anything you have selected, or if nothing is selected, it will check everything, as set in preferences. So the question is: why select anything in the first place?

I can label every USEE and usee in my project and have the spell checker correct them all.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:59:59 GMT

What I meat to say is (that in the past not all the times) it misses the misspelled words in the 2 label tools we have selected. If we only have 1 label tool selected it will correct all misspelled words.

And we need to select things because we are working on a building with 30 different tenants with 30 different sets of dwgs going out at different times.

Michele

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:15:46 GMT

Link wrote:
I can label every USEE and usee in my project and have the spell checker correct them all.

Cheers,
Link.

I always use CAPS LOCK for typing any text or label.
To my disbelief, the Labels do not get corrected when in upper case (in plan, did not check in detail windows), this is a BIG BUG.
Could someone check this if it is so?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Spell Checker

Link — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:34:50 GMT

Are you sure you haven't accidentally added the word USEE to your dictionary? It may be worth testing (on a separate concurrent version of AC) by removing your current dictionary in the Spell Checker Preferences>Language and dictionaries.

Bit of a longshot so if it doesn't work, close that version of AC first just to be sure.

As I said, it works fine for me. Why not upload a mod of these labels and let others test it?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Spell Checker

TomWaltz — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:44:32 GMT

Joseph wrote:
Link wrote:
I can label every USEE and usee in my project and have the spell checker correct them all.

Cheers,
Link.

I always use CAPS LOCK for typing any text or label.
To my disbelief, the Labels do not get corrected when in upper case (in plan, did not check in detail windows), this is a BIG BUG.
Could someone check this if it is so?
Thanks,
Joseph

My spell check used to work.... I'm not sure when it died, but it has worked in AC9 at some point.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:16:12 GMT

Link wrote:
Are you sure you haven't accidentally added the word USEE to your dictionary? It may be worth testing (on a separate concurrent version of AC) by removing your current dictionary in the Spell Checker Cheers,
Link.

Looks like I have added USEE accidently, I am on Mac where is this spell Checker file so I can replace it with an untouched one from another machine?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: Spell Checker

genarch — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:40:46 GMT

Using AC 11 1033 USA Full, and the SYSTEM spell checker (Word services failed to work), the spell checker ignores capitalized words! We tend to type in all caps, which renders the spell checker absolutely worthless!!!

For what it's worth, we were unable to get Word services to work in AC 10, either. Following this link (http://tr.graphisoftus.com/faq_entry_details.asp?id=858) will show you how to use the SYSTEM spell check library.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:57:19 GMT

Hello genarch,
I want to thank you for the link you posted
about getting the system spell checker to
work in the Mac version of Archicad.
Finally, after all these years I have
a working spell checker in Archicad.
Thank you !!
Peter Devlin

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:52:14 GMT

I hope somebody is still following this Topic. I am in AC 13 and tried the advice to set spell checker to system but "system" was no longer an option to add. So my question is, has anyone figured out how to make the AC 13 spell check work for words in all caps; because I'm tired of having to copy and past everything into google.

P.S To Graphisoft

It's the 13th release of an architectural drafting program, you haven't figured out that architects write notes in all caps on drawings, and provided a spell check that works. Are you honestly trying to compete, or have you given up and are just collecting our checks?

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:47:21 GMT

Hence, this may not be any help to you, but if you have MS Word installed correctly on your machine ArchiCAD will recognise and correct capitilised spelling errors only if you adjust the settings of the spell checker in Word.

See the attached Options screen for Word 2007. This is to be found in the big 'Office' button in the top left of the window - look underneath the recent documents list.

Also, I believe the 'system' spelling feature may be on Macs only. Your profile says PC.

Hope that helps.

Re: Spell Checker

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:51:19 GMT

THANKS PETER.
I HAD THE CAPS SPELL CHECKER OFFF.
MUST BE A DEFAULT THING:-)))
LEC