Configure Microsoft Office for spell check
Wincaps Q4 uses MS Office to perform the spelling check. Consequently the Wincaps Q4 spelling check will be disabled if:
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MS Office is not installed
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MS Office is installed but no lexicons are installed for the current file language
In order for spell checking to work, Wincaps Q4 must have a supported version of MS Word or MS Office installed. The following versions have been tested and are known to work:
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Office 365
Note that when installing MS Word from the Office installer, you also need to install the "Office Tools" component.
For languages other than English to work, the relevant MS Office/MS Word lexicons must be installed on the client machine. These are normally provided as a separate add-on e.g. for Office 2007 the "Office Multi-Language Pack" is required.
The behaviour of the Wincaps Q4 spell check is dependant on the following spelling options configured in MS Word:
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Ignore words in UPPERCASE
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Ignore words that contain numbers
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Ignore internet and file addresses
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Suggest from main dictionary only
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Flag repeated words
You should configure these settings as desired in MS Word and Wincaps Q4 will use them. Note that it is not possible to configure these settings from within Wincaps Q4 itself.
The Wincaps Q4 spell check uses the standard MS Word spelling dictionaries. Wincaps Q4 will also use any active MS Word custom dictionaries, though there is no facility to add words to these dictionaries from within Wincaps Q4.
Note that MS Word stores configuration settings on a per-user basis, so Wincaps Q4’s spelling behaviour will depend on how the active user has configured MS Word on any particular workstation.