How to Use Spell Check in Adobe Acrobat
With Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, you can easily check the spelling of PDF documents using the spell check tool. This makes quick work of proofreading a document for spelling mistakes. Follow the steps below to find out how you can use spell check in Adobe Acrobat.
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Instructions
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Start Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and open the PDF document to which you would like to check the spelling.
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Choose the "Edit" menu, point to "Check Spelling" and click "In Comments." The "Check Spelling" dialog box will open into the Acrobat desktop.
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Press the "Start" button in the upper right corner of the "Check Spelling" dialog box to begin the spell check process. If you have any words that are not included in the Adobe Acrobat dictionary, they will be brought up into the "Word not found" text box area at the top of the dialog box.
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Click the "Ignore" button to ignore the misspelling of the word or "Ignore All" to ignore the misspelling of that word every time it appears in the PDF. These options are used when you would like to not use a suggestion used by Acrobat and keep the original spelling.
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Select a word from the "Suggestions" text box to replace a misspelled word with one from the text box. Click the "Change" button to change the misspelling to the selected word or "Change All" to change all instances of the misspelling to the selected word.
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Use the "Add" button to add the misspelling to the Adobe Acrobat dictionary.
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Respond to all instances of misspelling in the same manner you did the first word. When there are no more misspellings, "
" will appear in the "Suggestions" text box. Click the "Done" button to close the dialog box and return to your document.
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Tips & Warnings
Press the F7 function key on your keyboard to quickly open the Adobe Acrobat Spell Check tool.
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Comments
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Yep, totally worthless article! I am an editor and would like to be able to more easily proof for misspelled words!
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Useless article--thought it was going to tell me how to spell-check text within a PDF document, but it only tells how to check text in comments.
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drjerry
Mar 04, 2010
2 SWOOLFE: Antique, and perhaps already answered but you ought to write the form properly with a JavaScript Keystroke event. In Professional 8, View-Toolsbars-Forms. Select the Text field tool. Double click on the field that is to be all upper case. Click the Format tab. Select format category: Custom. Click Edit.. on Custom Keystroke Script and enter the following JavaScript: if(!event.willCommit) { // force uppercase event.change = event.change.toUpperCase(); } Click Ok, Close. Now when you enter text into the given Text field, it will be uppercase no matter what you type... -
drjerry
Mar 04, 2010
Totally worthless! Here's the klunky work-around. File-Export-Rich Text Format. Open the resulting rtf with OpenOfficeOrg Writer (or Microsloth Turd) and press F7 to do the spelling.
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noomninam
Feb 18, 2010
Only one important detail you missed entirely: This only spellchecks the text in comments you or some other editor added -- NOT the main body of the text in the PDF. So... basically useless.
