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  When the Spelling Is Right
There are two broad reasons why a correctly spelled word could be listed in the Potential Typos dialog:
  1. The word is in a danger dictionary
  2. The word is missing from any of the dictionaries and from the Locationary™ areas taken into consideration.

In the latter case, the potential typos can either be:

  1. Geographically bound, such as city names in a map (data frame). Location-bound words that are correctly spelled should not be added to conventional dictionaries. Instead they should be added to Locationaries™ because their spelling is only valid within a limited geographic area of the world. *
  2. Non-geographically bound, such as disclaimers. Such words should be added to a dictionary as their spellings are valid worldwide. **
Non-geographically bound and correctly spelled  words, such as "ESRI", could be added to a dictionary using the Add to Dictionary or Edit command. The Add to Locationary command is however disabled because the word resides on the layout page and therefore the MapSpeller™ software recognizes it as non-geographically bound.

Words residing in a data frame (map) could potentially be added to a dictionary or a Locationary using their corresponding Add to commands, or using the Edit Typo dialog (which is displayed by the Edit command). However, should that word be geographically bound (such as Monticello in the illustration), it should only be added to a Locationary using either the Add to Locationary or the Edit command.
 
Important Notes
 

*  Because Locationary words are tied to geography, the Add to Locationary command will only add the highlighted word to users' personal Locationaries even though the same word may be listed several times in the MapSpeller Potential Typos dialog. From a Locationary point of view and as a general rule, words with the same spelling but at different geographic locations are considered different. Should all the occurrences of a word spelling need to be added to a Locationary, the Edit command should be used for efficiency. The Edit Typo dialog also has an option for adding all such occurrences of geographically bound text in one step to a Locationary. Should this spelling also be encountered in objects on the layout page, and therefore not geographically bound (for ex., in the layout title), those occurrences would not be added to a Locationary or to a dictionary.

**  Once a word has been added to a conventional dictionary, it is considered correctly spelled in all circumstances and locations. Conventional dictionaries lack the ability to store areas of validity for spellings. Therefore all occurrences of identically spelled words are removed from the Potential Typos dialog as that spelling is from then on considered correct anywhere on the layout page.
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MapSpeller™ 3 for ArcGIS®
Page last updated on February 10, 2010
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