FreeOffice: SoftMaker FreeOffice does not include the premium SoftMaker dictionaries normally shipped with SoftMaker Office. Only Hunspell dictionaries can be used here.
Only Hunspell dictionaries for English and German are already installed. If you need more languages, see Installing Hunspell dictionaries.
The option Check spelling as you type constantly checks the whole text for spelling errors. All misspelled words are marked with a red underline.
Enabling the option "Check spelling as you type"
To enable the function Check spelling as you type, choose the ribbon command File | Options to open the dialog box, switch to the Language tab and enable the option Check spelling as you type.
Tip: You can also enable this setting directly on the ribbon tab Review | Spell check without going via the dialog box. Click on the small arrow of the icon and select the entry Check spelling as you type.
TextMaker will now examine the entire document for spelling errors on a continuous basis. It will not only recognize existing spelling errors in the document, but will also immediately examine changes and additions to the text for correct spelling. (The latter as soon as a word is terminated by a space.)
Correcting misspelled words
Misspelled words are indicated with red wavy underlines on the screen. This allows you to see all misspelled words at a glance so that you can either correct them immediately or at a later time.
To correct one of these words underlined in red, either just change its spelling manually or right-click on the word to open the spell check's context menu.
Android/iOS: In these versions, you can also open the context menu with your finger: Just tap on the screen and hold your finger there for about a second.
The context menu contains the following items:
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List of |
The upper part of the context menu offers suggestions for the correct spelling of the word if any are found by TextMaker. If you click on one of them, it will replace the word in the text. |
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If TextMaker finds a large number of suggestions, an additional menu item called More suggestions appears. If you click on this item, a dialog box will appear with all suggestions that were found. For more information, see Manual spell check. |
Ignore word |
This option ignores the spelling error (for all instances of this word) and removes the red underline. |
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Use this option for words that are spelled correctly but should not be learned. When you exit TextMaker, it "forgets" the ignored words. |
Add word |
This option instructs TextMaker to add the word to the user dictionary and thus increase its vocabulary. |
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Use this option for correctly spelled words that TextMaker does not yet know. TextMaker remembers these words permanently. |
Create |
This option creates a SmartText entry from the word. For more information on this function, see SmartText. |
As soon as you correct the spelling (or allow TextMaker to ignore or add the word), the red underline disappears automatically.
Blue underlined words: If you have also enabled the option Underline old German spellings in blue in the dialog box File | Options, you may also see blue underlined words in addition to red underlined words. These are words that correspond to the old German spelling but have to be written differently since the new spelling was introduced. For more information, see the next section.
Is the spell check not working correctly? If the spell check classifies many words in a section of text as incorrectly spelled, although their spelling is definitely correct, then the section of text was probably formatted in the wrong language.
In this case, select the section of text and use the Change language button 
on the ribbon tab Review | group Spelling to set the language back to "Default" (or to the language in which it was written).
Tip: Jumping to the previous/next spelling error
If the option Check spelling as you type is enabled, the three buttons in the bottom right corner of the document window can also be used to jump to the previous/next spelling error.
To do so, click on the button with the red dot. A small menu appears. Select the option Spelling error from it.
The buttons can now be used as follows:
▪Click on the button with the up arrow to jump to the previous spelling error.
▪Click on the button with the down arrow to jump to the next spelling error.
For more information on these three buttons, see Go to....
Note: If you have also enabled the Duden grammar check (only included in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal), the arrows will jump to the previous/next spelling or grammar error.