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Why does spell checker skip some text captions?

Jan 12, 2012 8:25 AM

I spell checked my project and found typos. But there was another typo on the very first slide, first text caption, which it left behind. Why did it do this?

 

I thought, maybe this typo is in my dicitonary, so I deleted more letters from the word, and it still did not find it.

 

Then, my search on this topic I found advice to export all captions to Word and spell check there, then reimport back into Captivate. Is there something I don't understand here? Why does spell check find some errors and not others?

 

Please straighten me out.

 

Thx!

273 Views   2 Replies   Latest reply: gods of Ironing, Jan 12, 2012 10:20 AM
 
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  • Captiv8r
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    1. Captiv8r,
    Jan 12, 2012 9:12 AM   in reply to gods of Ironing
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    Hi there

     

    Just a WAG here, but what had focus when you kicked off the spell checker? My thought here is that many spell checkers work in "directions". For example, in some apps, you choose whether you search from the selected point forward or from the selected point backward. So assuming Captivate is programmed to work in "this point forward" mode only and you have perhaps slide three selected, that would explain why earlier slides would be skipped.

     

    Note that it's only a theory at this point. Either way, I'd strongly suggest you consider filing a bug report to the development team about it so they can investigate. (Link to the reporting form is in my sig)

     

    Cheers... Rick

     

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    2. gods of Ironing,
    Jan 12, 2012 10:20 AM   in reply to Captiv8r
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    Well, I can have the mouse pointer inserted in the actual mispelled word and choose Spellcheck. And still no joy.

     
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