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Checking Spelling

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There may be times when you want to turn off the spell check feature. For 
example, if students use NEO for spelling assignments, you may not want 
them to be able to spell check their work.

There are three ways to turn off spell check or turn it back on:

• You can press option-z-spell check on a NEO and enter the master 

password

• You can use the Control Panel SmartApplet on the NEO (page 66)

• From AlphaSmart Manager, you can disable spell check for all connected 

For the first two methods, you’ll need to enter a master password. For 
information on master passwords, see “The Three Passwords Used with 
NEOs” on page 76. 

If you have a list of custom words that regularly trip up your spell checks—
such as scientific terms, proper names, or acronyms—you can add them to the 
AlphaWord Plus dictionary so that spell check doesn’t question them in the 
future. There are three ways to add words to the user dictionary:

• During the spell check, you can press A for “add” when spell check 

questions the word.

• You can change the Spell Check Settings in the Control Panel (see page 66). 

Using this method, you can add words to the user dictionary or delete the 
user dictionary. (You can also turn off the ability to add words to the 
dictionary.)

• You can create a text file on your computer that contains the words to be 

added, and then you can send it to your NEO(s) using AlphaSmart 
Manager. See page 115.

The AlphaSmart Manager method is the most efficient because it allows you 
to update more than one NEO at the same time. If you use this method, you 
can also add several words to the NEO’s user dictionary at once, and you can 
delete individual words from the user dictionary. (You can’t delete words 
using the other methods.) Whenever you make updates to your text file, 
simply use AlphaSmart Manager to send the file again, and the existing user 
dictionary on the NEO(s) will be overwritten. To find out how to use 
AlphaSmart Manager to send a user dictionary to NEO(s), see page 115.

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