Spell check

[Guest]

Is there a way to automatically run a spell check on the user's data entries?
I don't know why, but some people don't seem to notice multiple misspelled
words. It makes it difficult to query their input.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Al Camp]

2 suggestions...
Try using Combo boxes or List boxes for the user to select from, rather than
blank text controls.
Incorporate Like into your queries whenever possible. It can be precisely
accurate but can also allow some leeway in query criteria.
hth
Al Camp

 

[Guest]

Hi.

I don't know why, but some people don't seem to notice multiple misspelled
words.

THE PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to rseearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be in the rghit plcae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit any porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Is there a way to automatically run a spell check on the user's data entries?

Set focus to the control that you desire to spell check then use the
appropriate Runcommand argument. For example:

Me!txtComment.SetFocus
RunCommand acCmdSpelling

.... where txtComment is the name of the text box that needs to be spell
checked.

HTH.

Gunny

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[Brendan Reynolds]

Wehn you cnoisedr how mcuh tmie we sepnd laenrnig to sepll, taht's a ltilte
dpeerssnig! :-(

 

[Guest]

See my reponse in the thread labeled:
spell checker cycles thru all records behind a form

 

[Guest]

Cambridge University's research results (or what you have quoted of them) are
not all the story. You take most of the words you have messed up out of a
sentence & see if it still rings true. What I mean is, putting the words in
a sentence helps you to determine the word.

The other problem with this relevation is that there are plenty of words in
the English language that are spelt similar to other words. The other reason
that we can read messed up words is because we mostly use a certain common
set of words - not the whole Oxford Dictionary.

So to get a message clearly to the reader we should use correct spelling -
even in SMS messages.