11. Spelling

Introduction

The Spellcheck Dialog allows a user to check the spelling of text within a chart and correct misspelled words. This feature can help you reduce spelling mistakes within text.

Interface

The Spellcheck dialog is a simple interface; it consists of two main text boxes one lists the unrecognized text, the other list suggestions for the unrecognized text. It also includes an Ignore All, Ignore, Change All, Change, Add to User Dictionary, and Cancel buttons.

Functionality

To access the Spell Checking dialog, Open a patient chart with an unsigned text based document open in a Document Manager, simply Click Documents, Spelling, Current Document or simply press F7.

Note: If you would like to spell check all documents in the chart, select All Documents or press CTRL + F7.

The Spellcheck engine will begin checking the current text section for misspelled words, if it finds a misspelled word; it will display a list of possible suggestions in the Finding Suggestions box.

If you would like to ignore the misspelled word, simply Click Ignore and the Spellcheck engine will ignore the misspelling. If you would like to Ignore All instances of the word within the chart, Click Ignore All.

Occasionally, you will have a word that is not in the dictionary, but is spelled correctly, such as a name or procedure. If you would like to add the word to the SOAPware Spellcheck dictionary, Click Add.

Note: The Spellcheck dictionaries are all stored locally per machine, per user (Windows login id).  The install location for the custom dictionary file is:

        C:\Documents and Settings\***UserName***\Local Settings\Application Data\SOAPware\dict.u

If you add a word to the dictionary on one machine, you will need to add it on all machines, or copy the custom spelling dictionary file to each user account on each computer.

The spelling dictionary is not stored in a central database due to the overhead and performance hit that it would create. 

If you inadvertently add a misspelled word to the dictionary, you can open and edit the custom dictionary file in a plain text editor (like Notepad) to correct the misspelling.  You cannot edit the words included in the default shipping dictionary. 

To change the word to one of the correctly spelled words in the Suggestions box, select the word and Click Change. If you would like to change the word each time it occurs in the text, Click Change All.

To cancel out of the Spellcheck dialog, Click Cancel.