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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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