Method and system for verifying accuracy of spelling and grammatical composition of a document
First Claim
1. In an electronic word processing system for creating and editing a document, the document comprising a plurality of sentences, a method for verifying the accuracy of spelling and grammatical composition of the plurality of sentences in the document, the method comprising the steps of:
- performing a first sequence comprising the steps of;
extracting one of the plurality of sentences from the document, the sentence comprising a plurality of words;
checking the spelling of each word in the sentence for a misspelled word in a spell checker program module;
displaying the sentence and each misspelled word within a first instance of a combined spelling and grammar dialog box;
displaying a plurality of common command buttons operative for correcting the spelling errors; and
performing a second sequence, subsequent to the first sequence, comprising the steps of;
checking the grammatical composition of the sentence in a grammar checker program module;
displaying the sentence and the grammatical errors within a second instance of the combined spelling and grammar dialog box; and
displaying the plurality of common command buttons operative for correcting the grammatical errors.
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Abstract
In an electronic word processing system environment, a system and method for verifying the accuracy of the grammatical composition of a sentence and the spelling of words within the sentence in an electronic document. A sentence is extracted from the electronic document. It is determined whether any of the words in the sentence are misspelled. If any of the words are misspelled, then an indication is displayed in a combined spelling and grammar dialog box. Determination is made whether the sentence is of proper grammatical composition. If the sentence does not have proper grammatical composition, then an indication is displayed in the combined spelling and grammar dialog box. These tasks may be repeated for each sentence in the document until the entire document has been proofed.
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15 Claims
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1. In an electronic word processing system for creating and editing a document, the document comprising a plurality of sentences, a method for verifying the accuracy of spelling and grammatical composition of the plurality of sentences in the document, the method comprising the steps of:
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performing a first sequence comprising the steps of; extracting one of the plurality of sentences from the document, the sentence comprising a plurality of words; checking the spelling of each word in the sentence for a misspelled word in a spell checker program module; displaying the sentence and each misspelled word within a first instance of a combined spelling and grammar dialog box; displaying a plurality of common command buttons operative for correcting the spelling errors; and performing a second sequence, subsequent to the first sequence, comprising the steps of; checking the grammatical composition of the sentence in a grammar checker program module; displaying the sentence and the grammatical errors within a second instance of the combined spelling and grammar dialog box; and displaying the plurality of common command buttons operative for correcting the grammatical errors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14)
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11. In an electronic word processing system for creating and editing a document, the document comprising a plurality of sentences, a method for verifying the accuracy of spelling and grammatical composition of the plurality of sentences in the document, the method comprising the steps of:
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performing a first sequence comprising the steps of; extracting one of the plurality of sentences from the document, the sentence comprising a plurality of words; checking each word in the sentence for a misspelled word in a spell checker program module; displaying the sentence containing the misspelled word in a rich text edit control (RTEC) field within a first instance of a combined spelling and grammar dialog box to allow editing of the sentence; indicating each spelling error contained in the sentence displayed in the RTEC field; displaying a suggestion list containing a first plurality of suggestions in a suggestions list box within the first instance of the combined spelling and grammar box operative for replacing the misspelled word; displaying a plurality of common command buttons within the first instance of the combined spelling and grammar box operative for replacing the misspelled word; and performing a second sequence, subsequent to the first sequence, comprising the steps of; checking the grammatical composition of the sentence in a grammar checker program module; displaying the sentence in the RTEC field within a second instance of the combined spelling and grammar dialog box to allow editing of the sentence; displaying the suggestion list containing a second plurality of suggestions in the suggestions list box within the second instance of the combined spelling and grammar box operative for correcting the grammatical errors; and displaying the plurality of common command buttons operative within the second instance of the combined spelling and grammar dialog box for replacing the grammatical errors.
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15. In an electronic word processing system for creating and editing a document, the document comprising a plurality of sentences, a combined spelling and grammar dialog box for displaying both spelling and grammatical errors in one of the plurality of sentences in the document comprising:
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a rich text edit command (RTEC) field for displaying both spelling and grammatical errors found within the sentence and editing the sentence; an error title line for indicating whether the error displayed in the RTEC field is a spelling error or a grammatical error; a suggestions list box for displaying a suggestions list, the suggestions list comprises a fist plurality of suggestions operative for correcting the spelling error found if the error type displayed in the error title line indicates a spelling error, or the suggestions lists comprises a second plurality of suggestions for correcting the grammatical error found if the error type displayed in the error title lined indicates a grammatical error; a plurality of common command buttons operative for correcting both errors in the spelling and in the grammatical composition of the sentence displayed in the RTEC field.
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