New in Spell Catcher X 10.0 - For Spell Catcher 8 Owners
This section covers the differences from the Mac OS 8/9 version. For features specific to this version of Spell Catcher, please see the previous sections.
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Spell Catcher is an application, accessible via its own menu, the Dock menu, and the Services menu of any application that supports System Services. In addition to being a native OS X (Cocoa) application, Spell Catcher has also been redesigned for better looks, clearer terminology, and is fully Mac OS X-savvy.
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Spell Catcher has been integrated with the standard Spelling Panel.
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Spell Catcher has a completely redesigned Check Selection window that is fuller and easier to use.
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The Text-to-Speech feature (for English) lets you listen to spoken spelling suggestions and results of Thesaurus and Dictionary Definition look-ups.
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An improved Find in References command easily locates all the reference files (dictionaries) that contain a certain word.
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Spell Catcher offers new editors for Learned Words (formerly called Supplementary dictionaries) and Shorthand Glossaries (formerly Glossaries). You no longer have to edit plain-text files; you can edit these word lists right in Spell Catcher, or drag-and-drop text from another program for easy bulk addition of words. Spell Catcher contains features for easily finding duplicate learned words or shorthand glossary entries.
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Extensive online help lets you learn the program more easily.
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The Help menu provides easy access to Rainmaker Research Inc. Web pages.
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A Register Online option has been added to the Help menu, to make it even easier to register your software.