Ten Minute Guide to Excel 97

Checking Your Spelling

Excel offers a spell checking feature that rapidly finds and highlights misspellings in a worksheet.

To run the spelling checker, follow these steps:

1. Click the Spelling button on the Standard toolbar. Excel finds the first misspelled word and displays it at the top of the Spelling dialog box. A suggested correction then appears in the Change To box (see Figure 6.1).

   Figure 6.1. Correct spelling mistakes with the options in the Spelling dialog box.

   

2. To accept the suggestion and change the misspelled word, click Change. Or, ...