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STW Spell Checker
This stealth to wealth spell checker works in MS Word to assist in developing spelling wordlists for minority languages. It is especially designed to work with Arabic or Persian script, where it can suggest similar previously approved spellings that differ only by diacritics and/or similar sounding characters which are often mis-typed, such as a س ص ث (seen/swad/sheen). Words may be easily added to or removed from the wordlist.
There are already the beginnings of wordlists available in Urdu, Sindhi, Balochi, Dhatki, Kachhi Gujerati, Marwari(Urdu Script), Marwari(Sindhi Script), Odki, Parkari, Saraiki and Thradhri. When these languages are first selected, the corresponding wordlist will be downloaded.
Installation Instructions:
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Download the STWSpellChecker Installer. (You may need to right-click this link and choose "Save link as...".) Run the installer to download and install the latest version of STWSpellChecker. That's it. Now you can restart Word. In Word 2003, you should now see a new STWSpellCheck ribbon: 
For Word 2007 and later, install the toolbar as follows:Note that the following will overwrite any previous customizations you might have made to Word. Download STWSpellCheckerWordToolbarCustomizations.exportedUI. (You may need to right-click in your browser and click "Save link as...") Right-click the ribbon in Word and select "Customize the Ribbon" Press the "Import/Export" button at the bottom right and select "Import customizations file" In the open file dialog find the file "STWSpellCheckerWordToolbarCustomizations.exportedUI" that you downloaded and import it Now you should have a new tab called "STWSpelling". 
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To use:
Using the STW Spell CheckerYou may check the spelling of a document using the buttons on the ribbon: However, most of the functions can also be accessed by keyboard shortcuts.
Press the Choose Language button to bring up the dialog.
Select the language and press "OK".
The first time you choose a language, it will download the wordlist from the server and keep it in the STWSpellChecker folder in your Documents folder. To download a fresh copy of the wordlist, choose "Download". Note that you will lose any changes you have made. Make sure you have uploaded any changes you have made before downloading. Clicking the
Clicking the
This will highlight misspelled words with whichever method has been
selected, whether a wavy underline, a different text colour or a background highlight. Words
with invalid characters (such as a bare yeh in Sindhi or a ٻ in
Urdu) will be highlighted with a different colour.
Use this button to remove any remaining spelling markup before printing. Clicking the
Right-clickingWhen you right-click a word in the text you will see a context menu popup like this, where you can also mark the spelling of a word as valid or invalid or ask for a list of suggested spellings.  Suggested SpellingsWhen you ask for a list of suggested spellings, you will see a dialog like the following:
These suggested words are taken from the wordlist, first ignoring diacritics, and then treating groups of characters as the same, such as ن the same as ڻ and ں etc. The rules that control what gets suggested can be configured differently for each language from the language configuration dialog, described above. The buttons on the Suggestions dialog work the same as the ones on the toolbar but allow you to correct the spelling in a document without leaving this dialog. |
- Choose Language
- Run the spell check of the document (Alt C)
- Spell check just the selected text
- Approve the spelling of the selected word (Alt A)
- Reject the spelling of the selected word (Alt R)
- Get list of suggested spellings (more on this below) (Alt ?)
- Find previous misspelled word (Alt P)
- Find next misspelled word (Alt N)
- Remove misspelled words markup (ALT C)
Change history:
Version 2.2 - Apr. 26, 2020
added check for updated wordlist for contributors on startup added timeouts to internet access requests to prevent hanging, waiting for a response fixed a few problems with uploading and downloading Version 2.1 - Apr. 21, 2020
fixed problem with downloading wordlist added ability to produce a list of words differing only by diacritics and soundex Version 1.9 - Apr. 21, 2020
added option to enable/disable check for updates on startup added suggestions of words with one character different Version 1.8 - Apr. 21, 2020
moved contributor list to configuration dialog fixed some bugs in uploading and working with contributors Version 1.7 - Apr. 20, 2020
simplified installation to use a vbscript installer simplified updates to a single click followed by restarting Word macros stored in the STWSpellChecker.dot template in the Startup folder Version 1.6 - Apr. 20, 2020
fixed bug with replace if word not selected fixed bug with not being able to update because dialog is open Version 1.5 - Apr. 20, 2020
add configuration options for live spell checking and enable/disable shortcut keys add shortcut key Alt-C to bring up the configuration dialog Version 1.4 - Apr. 19, 2020
live spell checking and live updates of the suggestions box language configuration fixed a problem where userforms that had been closed by OK or Cancel were not re-initialized fixed a problem with wordlist and configuration uploads fixed a problem with shortcut keys Version 1.3 - Apr. 6, 2020
added selectable highlighting, one of underline/text color/background colour added highlighting of invalid characters in a different colour added separate kinds of uploads for team leader or contributor contributor uploads only his changes for review by team leader Version 1.2 - Feb. 28, 2020
added the use of a configuration file for each language Version 1.1 - Feb. 2, 2020
added the ability to upload and download wordlists by language Version 1.0 - Oct. 2019
first release |