Spell Checking in TextEdit After writing a document: 1: Press command-semicolon and you will hear the misspelled word and the word highlighted. 2: Press control-Option-Shift-m to open the context menu where you will be able to use the down arrow to pick a suggestion or perform other actions. 3: Make your choice by pressing the enter key after down-arrowing to your desired selection If there is no spelling suggestion you can simply edit the word. 4: Repeat this process until you hear a bon sound followed by spell checker. Remember, the spell checker in Mail is quite different. Spell Checking in Mail Begin to check spelling with command-shift- semicolon. You will hear the selected word that will be checked for spelling. Then, press control-option-f2 twice, which will take you in to a list of windows. Now arrow down to, spelling and press enter. You will be given a word or list of words which you may want to use to correct the misspelled word. Along with these choices, you will be given the option to tab to, find next button, correct button, english pop up button, learn button, forget button,or browser. After you have chosen the word to replace your misspelled word, you can either press enter, or, tab to find next button and press the space bar to hear the next mis spelled word. When you hear the next mis spelled word, then do the process described above with each misspelled word until the spell checking has been completed which is noted by a bong sound. Spell checking in the e-mail program is a little different, for instants, once you have accessed the word chooser ignore menu, you may need to tab to the left or to the right to find the list of word choices. You may also at times find the ignore button, before the choose next button. Spell Checking in WEB Mail After writing a message: 1: Press command-semicolon and you will hear the misspelled word and the word highlighted. 2: Press control-Option-Shift-m to open the context menu where you will be able to use the down arrow to pick a suggestion or perform other actions. 3: Make your choice by pressing the enter key after down-arrowing to your desired selection If there is no spelling suggestion you can simply edit the word. 4: Repeat this process until you hear a bon sound followed by spell checker. This guide was completed with input from: Cheryl Stewart, John W. Hess and Keith Reedy www.icanworkthisthing.com