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[Jim]

I am using SCX 10.0.2 with Panther 10.3.1 and AppleWorks 6.2.7. Normally I type with “Interactive Checking“ and “Auto-Show Suggestions” turned on but as well, on completing a document, I usually “select all“ and have SC “Check Selection” to catch mistakes missed during typing. Since upgrading to Panther, when I finish “Check Selection” and paste the results back to the AppleWorks document all style formatting is lost, i.e. bullets, indents, sub-paragraphs. I can see that even in the “Check Selection” preview window formatting is already missing.

I have been using SC in this way since SC8x and do not remember having this problem. In fact I think I remember a preference in SC8 to do with paste results vs. find and replace results. I cannot fined this preference choice now.

[Evan Gross]

Jim, on Nov 23 2003, 03:21 PM, said:

I am using SCX 10.0.2 with Panther 10.3.1 and AppleWorks 6.2.7.  Normally I type with “Interactive Checking“ and “Auto-Show Suggestions” turned on but as well, on completing a document, I usually “select all“ and have SC “Check Selection” to catch mistakes missed during typing.  Since upgrading to Panther, when I finish “Check Selection” and paste the results back to the AppleWorks document all style formatting is lost, i.e. bullets, indents, sub-paragraphs.  I can see that even in the “Check Selection” preview window formatting is already missing.

I have been using SC in this way since SC8x and do not remember having this problem.  In fact I think I remember a preference in SC8 to do with paste results vs. find and replace results.  I cannot fined this preference choice now.

There is no Find/Replace option in Spell Catcher X, so look no further - you won't find it.

This method of correcting changes was simply not possible at the time Spell Catcher X was released. There is now a way to do this kind of thing via the Universal Access APIs.

So Find/Replace may come back in a future version of Spell Catcher X.

HOWEVER, even if Find/Replace came back - it would not work with AppleWorks 6. It's just too ancient a program and is based on technology that won't work with the new UI Scripting technology in OS X.

This and the fact that AppleWorks has never put substantial formatting information on the clipboard makes it virtually impossible to maintain all formatting via Check Selection.

Believe me, this is not a problem we take lightly. I spent probably an entire week trying to find a way to somehow maintain formatting in AppleWorks - trying every approach I could possibly think of, including using AppleEvents or AppleScript (AppleWorks has moderately good AppleScript support - unfortunately not quite good enough).

Maybe if the rumored AppleWorks 7 ever appears it will be a modern enough application - or at least something we can do more with.

Sorry for this harsh reality - AppleWorks 6 is just really showing its age these days.