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[William McCormick]

I have been using Spell Catcher for a long time, the Windows Version. I love it couldn't do without it.

I recently bought a copy to run on the MAC at work, and it is working rather well right out of the box.


My only questions are, can you, when working in a, MAC version, Microsoft Excel form, when changing fields using the mouse, have the mouse, causing the change in focus, break the spell checking routine in Spell Catcher?

In other words if I change focus from one field to another using the mouse, it takes the text, entered into the new field and concatenates it to the text in the previous field.

Just thought that would be nice to be able to set application specific.


This also effects automatic shorthand entries as well.



Sincerely,




William McCormick

[Evan Gross]

William McCormick, on 20 May 2011 - 04:16 PM, said:

I have been using Spell Catcher for a long time, the Windows Version. I love it couldn't do without it.

I recently bought a copy to run on the MAC at work, and it is working rather well right out of the box.


My only questions are, can you, when working in a, MAC version, Microsoft Excel form, when changing fields using the mouse, have the mouse, causing the change in focus, break the spell checking routine in Spell Catcher?

In other words if I change focus from one field to another using the mouse, it takes the text, entered into the new field and concatenates it to the text in the previous field.

Just thought that would be nice to be able to set application specific.


This also effects automatic shorthand entries as well.



Sincerely,




William McCormick

Things should work the way you state in Excel (or pretty much any app), I need to know a bit more about your setup:

What version of Mac OS X?
What version of Excel?
What version of Spell Catcher X?
If you're running on Mac OS X 10.6.x, when in Excel, which input method is being used? I other words, do you see the yellow checkmark with the little "64" badge, or the plain yellow checkmark in the menubar?

If you see the "64", open System Preferences, Universal Access, tell me if the "Enable access for assistive devices" checkbox is selected or not. If not, try selecting it to see if that helps.

(This is a bug in Excel, where swallows mouse clicks such that input methods don't see them as they normally would. I believe I did find a solution, but need to find out answers to the above first)

[William McCormick]

Thanks for taking the time to get back to me Evan.

MAC OSX 10.6.7

Excel 14.0.2

Spell Catcher 10.3.7



Sincerely,




William McCormick

[William McCormick]

Evan Gross, on 20 May 2011 - 09:14 PM, said:

Things should work the way you state in Excel (or pretty much any app), I need to know a bit more about your setup:

What version of Mac OS X?
What version of Excel?
What version of Spell Catcher X?
If you're running on Mac OS X 10.6.x, when in Excel, which input method is being used? I other words, do you see the yellow checkmark with the little "64" badge, or the plain yellow checkmark in the menubar?

If you see the "64", open System Preferences, Universal Access, tell me if the "Enable access for assistive devices" checkbox is selected or not. If not, try selecting it to see if that helps.

(This is a bug in Excel, where swallows mouse clicks such that input methods don't see them as they normally would. I believe I did find a solution, but need to find out answers to the above first)

I gave that a try and it did not seem to change anything.


Sincerely,




William McCormick

[Evan Gross]

William McCormick, on 23 May 2011 - 12:42 PM, said:

I gave that a try and it did not seem to change anything.


Sincerely,




William McCormick

Yeah, I can reproduce this. Not quite sure what's up at this point. There is a pretty easy solution, though - just use the input method component in Excel instead of the input method application. Since Excel isn't a 64-bit app, shouldn't pose any problem. Just substitute Excel for Outlook in this FAQ.

(Same idea, entirely different reasons, symptoms, and bugs involved)

[William McCormick]

Evan Gross, on 23 May 2011 - 11:41 PM, said:

Yeah, I can reproduce this. Not quite sure what's up at this point. There is a pretty easy solution, though - just use the input method component in Excel instead of the input method application. Since Excel isn't a 64-bit app, shouldn't pose any problem. Just substitute Excel for Outlook in this FAQ.

(Same idea, entirely different reasons, symptoms, and bugs involved)

Worked great thanks Evan.






Sincerely,




William McCormick