Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Tips: Spell Check and Count Words in Word Mobile Documents

The version of Word built into Pocket PCs will let you spell check a document and count the words in it. The process is simple:
Open Word Mobile ("Pocket Word" in pre-WM5 devices) and select the document you want to check from the file list.
On Windows Mobile 5 devices, tap on Menu (bottom right) and select Tools from the pop up menu. (On pre-WM5 devices, tap the Tool menu at the bottom of the screen.)
On Windows Mobile 5 devices, select the Spelling option from the pop-up menu. (On pre-WM5 devices, select Spell Check from the pop-up list.)
The spell checker will stop and highlight each word it doesn't recognize, and display a list of alternatives. Tap on a word in this list and spell checker will replace the highlighted word with it. You are also given the opportunity to ignore the highlighted word or add it to the spell checker dictionary.
You can also do a quick count of the words in a Word document. Open the document in Word Mobile. Then, tap on Menu, then Tools, and select Word Count. On pre-WM5 devices, open the document, tap on Tools, and select Word Count.

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