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NON-PRINTING CHARACTER
              Characters like alphabets, numbers, special characters are visible on the screen while typing but whenever
              the ‘Enter’ key, ‘Tab’ key, ‘Spacebar’ key, etc., is pressed, it does not represent a written symbol or part of the
              text within a document, but rather used for defined action. Such character which is non-printable in nature is
              known as non-printing character.
              To display the non-printing character, press the ‘Ctrl + F10’ keys.

              To hide the non-printing character, again, press ‘the Ctrl + F10’ keys.





















                SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
              Spell check is an additional feature in Writer that helps to check the spellings of words in the
              document.
                AutoSpellcheck: It is a facility in ‘Writer’ that enables to automatically check each word as it is typed
                 and display a red wavy line under the mis-spelt words. When the word is corrected, the red wavy line
                 disappears.

                Spelling & Grammar: It is used to check the spelling of the text or the selected text. It checks the selected
                 text and suggests spelling and grammar changes, if any mis-spelt words are found.

              To check spelling in a document:
              Select the text which is marked by red wavy lines and then click on the ‘Spelling and Grammar’ option from
              the ‘Tools’ menu. A dialog box appears with suggestions as follows:
























                Not in dictionary: The unrecognized words which are not present in the ‘Writer’ dictionary are displayed
                 in the ‘Not in dictionary’ text box.


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