About user dictionaries and actions

You may be familiar with the concept of user dictionaries through working with other applications, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. Typically, applications store in a user dictionary words which are personal to the user, such as the user's family name or business name.

ActiveX Speller extends the user dictionary by optionally associating an action code and an alternate word with each word in a user dictionary. The action code tells ActiveX Speller what to do when it encounters the word when checking text. For example, one of the action codes tells ActiveX Speller to automatically replace the word with the alternate word. If the word in the user dictionary was a word you frequently misspell (such as receive), ActiveX Speller could automatically replace it with the correct spelling (receive). ActiveX Speller comes with a user dictionary (correct.tlx) which contains hundreds of words commonly misspelled and their correct replacements.

ActiveX Speller supports the following action codes in its user dictionaries:

Auto-change
Automatically replace one word with another. "Automatically" means the word is changed without intervention from the user. Automatic correction can be turned off by disabling the Auto Correct property, in which case automatic changes behave like conditional changes.

Conditionally change
Conditionally replace one word with another. Usually, the user is prompted to accept the change before the change is made.

Exclude
Treat the word as misspelled, even if it exists in other dictionary files. The word will be reported as misspelled if it is encounter in the checked text, and will not be offered as a suggestion. This action is useful for effectively deleting words from the main dictionary.

Ignore
Treat the word as correctly spelled. This is the typical meaning assigned to words in user dictionaries.