MS Lesson 11: Spelling and GrammarMS Lesson 12: Moving a SelectionMS Lesson 13: Copying a Selection

Mrs. Brown

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Bell Ringer

• What are Antonyms?• What are Synonyms?

Answer

• Antonyms: Words with opposite meaning• Synonyms: Words with the same meaning

Lesson 11 Objectives

• Correcting Spelling and Grammar as You Type• Checking spelling and Grammar• Using the Thesaurus• Controlling Hyphenation• Analyzing the Use of Hyphens• Inserting a Non-Breaking Space

Lesson 11 Voc. Words• Antonyms: Words with opposite meaning• Compound modifier: Two words combined to act as an

adjective• Compound word: Two or more words combined to

create a new or more specific word• Hyphen: A horizontal bar character used to indicate a

split or incomplete word• Hyphenation zone: the maximum space Word allows

between a word and the right margin without inserting a hyphen

• Synonyms: Words with the same meaning• Thesaurus: A listing of words with synonyms and

antonyms

Discussion

• Why is spelling and grammar important in word processing documents?

Review the text below. What does the red and green line mean?

Blue wavy line means word choiceRed: SpellingGreen: Grammar

Status Bar Book Icon

• Located in the lower left corner.• If all words are correct it has a red check mark• If document contains errors, a red “x” is

display• Open any document and make changes that

are not correct or key some words incorrectly.

Blank Word Document: Spelling and Grammar Options

• Click fileoptionsProofingLets Review Options

Lets Explore

Correct as you type

• Right click wordselect appropriate word from short-cut menu and click it

• Words can be added to dictionary or ignored– When added to dictionary the word no longer will

appear as misspelled– When ignored; underline is removed from that

occurrence only unless you ignore All

Caution!!!!!

• Spell check and grammar check are not always correct.

• Word automatically correct many spelling mistakes as soon as you press the spacebar

• Question?• Why would words spelled correctly appear

with red wavy lines under them?

Spelling and Grammar checker for entire document

• FileReview tab

• Function key F7 (short cut key stroke)

You can check for spelling without checking for grammar

Custom Dictionary

• FileOptionsProofingCustom dictionary• Words can be deleted or added here

• What type of works would you add to the dictionary?

Using the Thesaurus

• Improves writing by helping you eliminate repetitive use of common words and choose more descriptive words

• Word uses thesaurus to look up synonyms, definitions, and antonyms for any word

• Results are displayed in the Research Task Pane

Thesaurus: Lets Practice

• Adventure• Student• Teacher

• How is this feature useful?

Hyphenation

• Dividing a word into parts that will not fit• By default hyphenation is set to none• Words that are too long wrap to the next line• Only hyphenated words like first-class that fall

at the end of a line will break automatically at the hyphen

• You can manually hyphenate words

Lets Practice• Click fileHyphenation

• Manually hyphenate long words by clicking the hyphenate button and manual

• Word searches the document and display words that can be broken in the manual hyphenation dialogue box

Key the Information in Analyzing the Use of Hyphens

Non-Breaking Space

• Use these if you want to keep the last word in a paragraph from wrapping to the next line.

• Useful in Web and e-mail addresses to eliminate awkward breaks

• Press ctrl + shift + space

Project 23 and 24

• Project information will instruct you to key some information incorrectly so you can use the spelling and grammar checker