New spell-check feature

Check the spelling in your sales, purchases, and item information

When entering sale, purchase or item information, you can now check the spelling in the following fields:

Window	Field
Sales	• Description (for Service, Professional, Item, and Miscellaneous layouts) • Notes (for Time Billing layout).
Purchase	• Description (all layouts)
Item Information	• Name (Item Profile tab) • Description (Item Details tab).

You can choose to set a preference to automatically check spelling or manually check spelling. For more information, see Set spelling preferences.

When you choose to automatically check spelling and attempt to record a transaction with a misspelled word, the Spelling window appears.

The Spelling window displays the misspelled word and suggests a replacement. You can choose to change the word to the suggested replacement, add it to your dictionary or set the spell-check feature to ignore it.

You can also open the Spelling window by clicking the Spell button.

Set spelling preferences

If you want, you can customize your spelling preferences. For example, you can change the main dictionary language and choose a preference to ignore words that include numbers.

To set spelling preferences

1	Go to the Setup menu and choose Preferences. The Preferences window appears.

2	Click the Windows tab.

3	If you want to automatically check spelling select the Automatically Check Spelling in Text Fields Before Recording Transactions option.

4	Click the Spelling button. The Spell Check Preferences window opens.

5	Set the preferences you want and click OK.

Spelling preferences options

Select	to...
Ignore words that start with capitals	Ignore words with initial capitals, such as proper names, place names, company names, and product names.
Ignore all-caps words	Ignore words entered in capitals, including acronyms (e.g., IRS, MYOB, PC).
Ignore words with numbers	Ignore combinations of words (or letters) and numbers (e.g., P35, Code231).
Ignore words with mixed case	Ignore words with a mixture of upper and lower case letters (e.g., BusinessBasics, iMac).
Ignore internet and email addresses	Ignore combinations of words, letters, numbers, and characters typical of website and email addresses (e.g., www.myob-us.com, customer.service@myob-us.com).
Report repeated words	Report instances of two or more repeated words (e.g., the the, itit).
Case sensitive	Check different cases of the same word (e.g., ‘Service’ and ‘service’ are treated as two separate words).
Suggest split words	Suggest two replacement words for a single joined word (e.g., ‘it is’ for ‘itis’).
Auto correct	Automatically replace common misspellings (e.g., ‘teh’ is replaced with ‘the’).
Main dictionary language	Set the main dictionary language used by the spell-check feature (e.g., British English, American English).

 

note : Show Me How movie

If you want, you can view a movie demonstrating this feature. Go to the Help menu and choose What’s New in this Release, then New Feature Movies.

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