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Spell Checking Web Pages

Always spell check your pages before publishing them
.  To check for spelling errors, click Tools and Spelling.  A dialog box will appear indicating that the word is not found in FrontPage’s dictionary.  Ignore the error if you know the word is spelled correctly. If it is not spelled correctly, select the correct word from the Suggestions box and click Change or Change All, if you have more than one instance of the misspelled word on your page. You can add new words to the dictionary by clicking on Add

Spell checker dialog box.

If you want to check all the pages in your website, click on the web’s Root Directory, Tools, and Spelling.  A dialog box will appear.  Select Entire Web site, check Add a task for each page with misspellings, and then click Start.

Spell checker dialog box for entire website.

A second dialog box will appear showing pages with spelling errors. Just click on a page in the Status box to open the page.

Spell checker results dialog box.

FrontPage will open the page and display a dialog box with spelling suggestions.  Correct your spelling errors and then save the page. The next dialog box to appear will ask if you want to Close this page or go Back To List.  If you have additional pages to correct, click on Back To List. If you don’t have any other pages to correct, click the X button to close the dialog box.

Continue with next page dialog box.


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