Social Services Information System (SSIS)
Spell Check and AutoCorrect Options
Spell Check and AutoCorrect Options may be customized by SSIS users. Changes
made to these features are saved until changed again. Spell Check and AutoCorrect
changes made from the File menu location currently apply only to text boxes in all
service plans and on SSIS screens (not to document contained within Chronology).
File – AutoCorrect Options
AutoCorrect Options
AutoCorrect options allow automatic
changes to text, such as capitalization.
It also provides options for replacing text
as you type (within all service plans and
most text boxes on SSIS screens).
Choose to use – or not use – any
AutoCorrect Options as per your
personal preferences.
To open AutoCorrect Options:
1. Click File in the SSIS Toolbar and select AutoCorrect Options.
2. Select how you want capitalization to occur in the Capitalize section.
3. Click the Exceptions button to enter AutoCorrect Exceptions. Text entered in
either box will hereafter not automatically change in SSIS.
Example: Abbreviations
 ‘ft’ will not change to ‘feet’ and will not be spell-checked.
 ‘lbs’ will not change to ‘pounds’ and will not be spell-checked.
Example: TWo INitial CApitals
 CD’s or TV’s or DVD’s entered here are not spell-checked.
4. Enter text in the Replace column, and enter text in the corresponding With
column, to customize AutoCorrect features. Once added, SSIS automatically
changes text in the Replace column to the text indicated in the With column.
See example suggestions below:
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AutoCorrect Options - Replace and With Columns
5. Click the Add button between each entry. Clear the fields before adding a new
entry.
Hint: Replace and With fields will not change the same letters to different cases.
For example: ‘adhd’ does not change to ‘ADHD’.
6. Clicking in the
checkbox enables
Autocorrect to automatically change text as you type it. Leave this checkbox
blank if you do not want SSS to automatically insert suggestions from the Spell
Check.
Example: If


is selected, then:
automatically changes to
automatically changes to
and
.
It is recommended that AutoCorrect be disabled to prevent these automatic changes,
but leave Spell Check enabled to allow for automatic spell checking (red squiggly line).
7. Clicking in the
box completely disables all spell
check features (which is not recommended).
8. Click OK to save your changes to AutoCorrect Options.
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File – Spelling Options
Spelling Options
Spell Check within all service plans (as
well as on SSIS screens) occurs from
the Spelling Options feature found
under the File menu.
Using the Custom Dictionary is one way
to customize how Spell Check works
specific to your own SSIS entries.
Hint: Currently, documents in the Chronology folder contain their own Spell
Checker, which is different from the one contained in the File menu. The Spell Checker
specific to documents is accessible by opening the document in the Editor, and clicking
on the Spell Checker button in the Editor toolbar.
To open Spelling Options:
1. Click on File in the SSIS Toolbar and select Spelling Options.
2. Review the General options selections and change if desired.
3. Click on the Edit button in the Edit custom dictionary section.
4. The Custom Dictionary displays.
Spelling Options - Custom Dictionary
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5. Enter text in the Custom Dictionary that you do not wish Spell Check to either
AutoCorrect, or identify with a red squiggly line.
6. Click the OK button to save additions to the Custom Dictionary.
7. No entry is permitted in the International dictionaries section.
8. Click OK to save changes made within Spelling Options.
Hint: Highlight your text entries within your Custom Dictionary, right-click, and
select Copy. Open an email to a colleague, right-click, and select Paste in the body of
the email. You can send and exchange Custom Dictionaries with coworkers to expand
commonly used words within your agency. Words can be copied directly from an email
or other document and pasted into the Custom Dictionary.
Hint: It is recommended that you save entries in your Custom Dictionary to a
separate Word document. In the event they are inadvertently deleted they can be easily
copied from the Word document, and pasted back into the Custom Dictionary.
Hint: Spelling and AutoCorrect Options may also be accessed by right-clicking on
any word underlined in red within an Editor box to access an Action menu (see below).
Spell Check Shortcut
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