Introduction to MapSpeller for ArcGIS

• Introductory Topics
• What Is MapSpeller™ for ArcGIS?
• The Conventional Spell Checking Process
• The Challenges of Spell checking Maps
• Some Key MapSpeller™ Innovations

Installing MapSpeller for ArcGIS

• Overall Installation Process
• System Requirements
• Getting the MapSpeller™ Software
• Installing the MapSpeller™ Software
• Showing the MapSpeller™ Toolbar
• Registering the MapSpeller™ Extension on a PC
• Registering Yourself as a MapSpeller™ User
• Enabling the MapSpeller™ Extension
• Getting MapSpeller™ Updates
• Removing, Uninstalling MapSpeller

Using the MapSpeller Toolbar

• Overview of How to Use the MapSpeller™ Toolbar
• Starting the Spell Checker
• Setting Spelling Options
  • MapSpeller™ Spelling Options: Overview
  • Automatically Saving The Map Document
  • Ignoring Certain Types of Words
  • What Are Locationaries™ & How To Use Them
  • Selecting Dictionaries or Languages
  • Setting the Number of Suggested Words
  • Spell Checking Exclusively With Your Locationary
  • Using Your Personal Dictionary
• Interacting with Potential Typos
  • Overview of Interacting With Potential Typos
  • Sorting Potential Typos
  • Zooming
  • Replacing A Typo With A Suggestion
  • Instructing MapSpeller That A Word Is Correctly Spelled
  • Bookmarking A Potential Typo
  • Ignoring A Spelling
  • Editing Typos Manually

MapSpeller Tips & Tricks

• Overview of Tips & Tricks
• Advanced Dictionary Customization
  • Advanced Dictionary Customization (Overview)
  • Instructing MapSpeller to Warn if Specific Words are Present
  • Instructing MapSpeller that Words are Correctly Spelled
  • Making Sure a Specific Suggestion Is Offered
• Advanced Locationary Customization
  • Advanced Locationary Customization (Overview)
  • Building Your Own MapSpeller™ Locationary™
  • How to Automate Distributing a Personal Locationary
• Spell Checking Tips & Tricks
  • Spell Checking Tips & Tricks (Overview)
  • Spell Checking Labels
  • Spell Checking Annotation Feature Classes
  • Spell Checking Grouped Graphics
  • Spell Checking Map Legends
  • Spell Checking What Is Visible

Undoing Changes

• Overview of Undoing Changes
• Undoing Corrections
• Removing a Word from a Personal Dictionary
• Removing a Word from a Personal Locationary
• Undoing Ignores

MapSpeller: Getting More Help

• Getting More Help (Overview)
• Know Issues
• The MapSpeller Version and Build Numbers
• Who Installed the MapSpeller Extension?
• Contacting Edgetech America, Inc.

MapSpeller: Legal Notes

• Legal Overview
• The MapSpeller™ License Agreement
• Trademark, Copyright & Patent Notices

Locationaries are spatially-smart dictionaries. Dictionaries are not able suitable for keeping track of location-bound words because of their inability to store the geographic area of validity of those location-bound words. On the other hand, locationaries keep track of correctly spelled word and the geographic locations they are considered correctly spelled. The term locationary itself is a combination of "location" and "dictionary". Locationaries can be made language dependent or not by end users.

Through the MapSpeller Options dialog, users can decide to use personal locationaries or not. If they do, they can loosen up that spatial constraint imposed by the features' extents by:

1. Considering all locationary features within the current view extent as dictionary words (default)
2. Buffering each locationary feature to obtain a wider geographic validity of each locationary word.

The context menu available from MapSpeller Potential Typos dialog lets users add new words in their user locationary. The valid extent of the spelling of that word is that of its extent on the map at the time it is added. Users new to MapSpeller may find out that many of the proper words listed in the Potential Typos dialog, such as road or place names, have correct spellings. To avoid seeing those words in, and having to manually add them to their user locationary from, the Potential Typos dialog, users can create and plug in their own user locationary into MapSpeller.

• Advanced Locationary Customization (Overview)
• Overview of Setting MapSpeller Options