User Guide

Smith Corona Corporation Spell-Right Dictionary — 6-1
Spell-Right
®
Dictionary
Your Memory Typewriter offers several tools to help you avoid spelling
and grammatical errors when creating text in Type, Line and Mem
modes. Each tool has a special function and can be activated at any time
when you are using Type, Line and Mem modes. Below is a list of the
tools and a brief description of each. Complete instructions on how to
use a particular function follow in this chapter.
Spell-Right Dictionary – signals misspelled words.
WordFind – finds misspelled words. Proofreads text in memory.
Word-Right AutoSpell – suggests alternative spellings for incorrectly
spelled words and automatically replaces them.
List – enables you to look up any word in the electronic dictionary.
Personal Word List – lets you add specialized words to the dictionary
(number dependent on memory available).
Punctuation Check – checks your text for 14 different types of typing
punctuation errors.
Dictionary
The dictionary checks all words entered into the document as you type
them, and alerts you when you have typed an incorrect word.
NOTE: A group of letters will be considered a word if it is
followed by a space, return, tab, subscript, superscript,
pitch change, number, or any other non-alpha character.
Dictionary Pointers
Spell-Right looks for the following:
Double Words – if you type two identical words,
one after the other.
Capitalization Check – if the first word following a
period, question mark, or exclamation point and two
spaces is not capitalized.
at the dance. we
Unrecognized Words – if it finds misspellings, transpositions,
double strikes, unwanted spaces, and character omissions.
Spell-Right will not check:
Capitalization (except as noted above)
Single characters
Numbers
Any non-alpha character
Placement of hyphens or uses of apostrophes.