Chapter 9 Customizing your Modeling Environment

Spell checking

Spell checking in PowerDesigner is only available if you have MS Word 2000 or higher installed on your machine, and if your system code page is consistent with the model language. For example, for the spell checker to work properly on a Chinese model, your system code page should be Chinese.

Enabling the spell checker

The spell checker is a PowerDesigner add-in that needs to be enabled to work properly.

To enable and configure the spell checker:

1. Select Tools→General Options to open the General Options dialog box.
2. Click the Add-Ins node in the Category tree view and select the Spell Checker checkbox.
3. Click OK to return to the model diagram.
4. Select Tools→Spell Checking Options to open the Spell Checking Options dialog box.
5. Select the properties of model objects for which you want to check the spelling. If you select Check sub-objects, then all the child objects of any object you check will also be checked.
6. Select the language of your model in the Dictionary Language list, and then click OK to return to the model diagram.

Using the spell checker

To use the spell checker:

1. Right-click an object or a model node and select Spell Check in the contextual menu.
   
   Spell checking starts. If an error is found the Spell Checking dialog box opens.
2. For each error, you can:
   
   
   • Click Change to accept the suggested replacement word
   • Type your own replacement and click Change
   • Click Change All to apply the change to the entire object or model
   • Click Add to add the word to your custom dictionary
   
   
   A message is displayed to inform you that spell checking is successful.

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