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[sjordi]

Hi,
I'm a registered user of Spell Catcher Plus for Windows using version 2.0.4 and am very satisfied with this tool.
It works in almost all my applications except my email program.
This one is Courier 3.5 (formerly Calypso). You can download a trial version from www.courier-email.com to make some tests.

If I correct words as I type, when I have the SpellCatcher icon blinking, select the correct word, it will correct it correctly even if it is far back in the paragraph.

The only times it doesn't work is when I myself select a block of text, say 4 paragraphs or the entire document, to use the "Check selection..." option that it doesn't work. It stops on all mispelled words, proposes suggestions, etc... but then once done, doesn't apply the corrections to the selection. This one is untouched.

Any way to fix this? To force a copy-to-clipboard-then-paste-from-clipboard?

I am using this excellent email application since 1996 and won't change for anything else.

Thanks for any help that would make my online life perfect.
Steve

[John Tytler]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the question... I downloaded a demo of the application from the site you listed and tried out version 2.0.4 on my XP.

[NOTE TO ALL: Please tell me what OS you are using in addition to which program you are using Spell Catcher with, this helps].

In any case, I initially found no problems editing an e-mail in RICH-TEXT mode. Check selection and interactive replacement worked fine. Evan suggested trying PLAIN TEXT, that's when I noticed what you reported...

In PLAIN text I could select text for checking and perform check selection... nothing pasted back in as you reported.

Why? Courier 3.5.0 makes puts both RTF and Plain TEXT on the clipboard when working without formatting, so Spell Catcher decides to examine and alter the RTF, which unfortunately can't be pasted back into Courier (since it is in PLAIN text mode).

So there are easy ways to fix this...

1) use Rich Text within Courier

-or -

2) Go to the Advanced panel within Spell Catcher settings and indicate that you want to use Clipboard Format: Plain Text. If you do this, SC will work as expected... unfortunately you'll notice that it now uses Plain Text with all applications, so it's best to create settings for Courier within Spell Catcher by going to the Applications panel while working with Courier and pressing "Create Application Settings" while the current application is COURIER.

You can then select these settings and go to the Advanced panel to set Plain Text as the preferred clipboard format for just COURIER, leaving it at "Best Available" for all other applications.

Hope this helps, get back to me here if you need further clarification,

John Tytler - Author, Spell Catcher for Windows

[sjordi]

John,

thanks a lot for your help.
Actually I didn't know it was possible to make specific settings per application.
It was right under my nose, but you know how it is... as long as you don't try it, you don't notice it.

It works! I've set it to Plain Text and it is perfect now.

Since I never send formatted messages (for compatibility reasons), I stick to Plain Text in my emails. So now SpellCatcher is really perfect.

Thanks a lot!

By the way I'm impressed by the quality of SpellCatcher's work. It surpasses most spell checkers I've seen, including the crappy one from Word or from Addictive. Most words I was sure it would not recognize, well, it did have them.
You have reached the level of professional spell checkers like the ones from WordPerfect which are made by specialists! Bravo!

Keep up the good work.
Steve