Recognizing WordPerfect's Automatic Proofreading Features

You might notice that as you type a document, red underlines appear under some words. This is the Spell-As-You-Go feature working for you. Spell-As-You-Go has marked these words as possible misspellings.

Spell-As-You-Go is one of the two automatic proofreading features in WordPerfect—the other is Grammar-As-You-Go, which checks for grammatical errors. The theory behind these two features is that it's faster to correct errors while you are typing than to go back and fix them later. If Grammar-As-You-Go is activated rather than Spell-As-You-Go, you might see blue dashes in the text as well.

To correct a word with Spell-As-You-Go

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Right-click a red underlined word to open a list of suggested ...

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