The following preferences can be changed on the 
     General > Editors >
    Text Editors > Spelling preference page.
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            Option
           
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            Description
           
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            Default
           
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            Enable spell checking 
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            This option enables spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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| Ignore words with digits | 
        This option ignores words with digits when performing spell checking. | 
        On | 
      
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            Ignore mixed case words 
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        This option ignores mixed case words when performing spell checking. | On | 
      
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            Ignore sentence capitalization 
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            This option ignores sentence capitalization when performing spell checking. 
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        On | 
      
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            Ignore upper case words 
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            This option ignores upper case words when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Ignore internet addresses 
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            This option ignores internet addresses when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Ignore non-letters at word boundaries 
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            This option ignores non-letters at word boundaries when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Ignore single letters 
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            This option ignores single letters when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Ignore Java string literals 
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            This option ignores Java string literals when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Ignore '&' in Java properties files 
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            This option ignores '&' in Java properties files when performing spell checking.
           
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            On
           
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            Platform dictionary 
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            This option selects a platform dictionary to use.
           
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            English (United States)
           
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            User defined dictionary 
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            This option selects a User defined dictionary to use.
           
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            -
           
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            Encoding 
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            This option selects which encoding to use for reading the dictonaries.
           
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            Default (depends on Platform)
           
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            Maximum number of correction proposals 
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            This option limits the possible corrections displayed to the given value.
           
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            20
           
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