Spell Check Overview (Maintain Global Options)
The Spell Check feature allows you to check spelling in various areas throughout Sage 50. It can also check basic grammatical errors, such as incorrect capitalization, words that are typed together without a space between them, and repeated words.
You can create customized dictionaries, and add words to your dictionaries so that Spell Check skips over the specified words in the future. For example, if Spell Check treats your name as a misspelled word, you can add your name to the dictionary so that Spell Check will ignore it. Get more information about dictionaries.
There are several ways to check spelling. You can choose Check Spelling from the Edit menu or press F7 in fields where Spell Check is available. You can also set up Spell Check to review your text when you save or close a record. Spell Check can be set up to highlight misspelled words in red as you type, or to automatically correct misspelled words.
When the Check Spelling window appears, you can instruct it to replace the word, ignore it, or add it to your dictionary.
The Spell Check feature is available in the following areas:
- Maintain Inventory Items (Description for Sales, Description for Purchases)
- Notes (Customer, Statement, Internal, and Vendor)
- Description fields in the following windows: Quotes, Sales Orders, Sales/Invoicing, Receive Money, Credit Memos, Purchase Orders, Purchases/Receive Inventory, Payments, Vendor Credit Memos, and General Journal Entries
- Time and Expense Tickets (Ticket Description for Invoicing, Internal Memo) (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
- Action Items (To Do Notes)
- Set Company Alerts (Email Note, Subject)
- Forms (Text Object Properties, Text)
Note: The ability to check spelling by pressing F7 is not available in Set Company Alerts, Forms Designer Text Object Properties, and the various Notes windows. However, spelling will still be checked in these areas if your spell check options are set to check spelling as you type, or on save and close.