Check Spelling; Summary - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH Tutorials Manual

208 Text: Add Text to a Document

Check spelling

Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 introduce new features that let you
check spelling in most places where text occurs in your document,
including text fields, layer names, and ActionScript strings. To check
spelling, you first configure the Spelling Setup options, and then run the
spell checker.
1. Select Text > Spelling Setup.
2. Verify that Check Text Fields Content is selected, and that you've
selected the appropriate dictionary. Select any other options, as desired.
Then click OK.
3. Select Text > Check Spelling and respond to the dialog boxes that the
spell checker presents. When you finish checking spelling, save your
document.
To check spelling in text in external files, use the spell-check feature
associated with the application that you used to create the external file.

Summary

Congratulations on learning the basic ways in which to add text to your
document. In a few minutes, you learned how to accomplish the
following tasks:
Create an expanding-width text block.
Create a fixed-width text block.
Edit text and change font attributes.
Select device fonts.
Add an input text field.
Copy a text field.
Assign instance names to text fields.
Create a dynamic text field.
View ActionScript that links the text field to an external text file.
Set up and check spelling.
To learn more about the great variety of options you have when adding text
to your document, see Chapter 6, "Working with Text," in Using Flash.