sciPROOF OPTIONS

sciPROOF was designed to be a dynamic and flexible program. Through the "sciPROOF Options" dialog, any or all features or term databases (dictionaries) of sciPROOF can be activated or deactivated.

Controlling sciPROOF Features

• Check term spelling: Please note that deactivating this feature will disable sciPROOF spellchecking and background spellchecking so that correct spellings will not be suggested and scientific terms will not be recognized by Word and will be underlined in red.
• Check term style: This feature flags and suggests fonts and formatting for terms that the user has added to sciPROOF terms, e.g., Bold, Italics, Sub- and Super-scripts, Underline, Upper- and Lower-case.
• Greek symbol checker: This feature will flag any single letter, preceded or followed by a dash, e.g. '-b' and 'b-', and any written Greek letter, e.g. 'beta,' and suggest the corresponding Greek letter, e.g 'b'. If you do not use Greek symbols in your writing then we suggest that you disable this feature.
• Show search term before searching PubMed: When PubMed searching is activated, the search term will be displayed in a pop-up window so that the user can verify the term (correct term, spelling, etc.). If you do not want to verify the search term before performing PubMed searches, please deactivate this feature.
• Ignore citation numbers while spellchecking: Microsoft Word flags terms with numbers as errors, unless the "Ignore words with numbers" feature of Word has been activated (NOT RECOMMENDED). This presents a significant problem if you use citation numbers or bibliographic management programs such as EndNote^®, Reference Manager^® or ProCite^®. Correctly spelled words will be flagged as errors because a new, unrecognized term is created with the addition of a citation number. The "Ignore citation numbers" feature of sciPROOF will ignore citation numbers and will only evaluate the spelling of the term.
• Auto-replace spelling errors: sciPROOF will automatically correct spelling errors while typing. This feature works exactly like Word's auto-correct feature but only applies to scientific terms in the sciPROOF database.
• Use keyboard shortcuts: The keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+F7, Ctrl+Num*, and Ctrl+Num+ activate the "Check with sciPROOF," "Search/Modify Term," and "Add Term" buttons, respectively. For reference they are displayed in the Word > Tools > sciPROOF menu. If you want to change any of the shortcut keys, please see the "Customizing Shortcut Keys" section of this user guide.
• Reset all "Ignore" operations: This button will reset all Ignore operations that were executed while spellchecking.
• Reset all sciPROOF buttons and toolbars: Sometimes problems occur with the sciPROOF toolbar buttons when installing an update. This button will reset all sciPROOF buttons. NOTE: Word must be re-started in order for the changes to take effect.
• Set "Ignore All" button to ignore “Text” or “Both Text and Style”: This option will allow the user to Ignore all sciPROOF spelling or all spelling and style (font and format) suggestions throughout the entire Word document.
• Set "Change All" button to change “Text” or “Both Text and Style”: This option will allow the user to change all sciPROOF spelling or all spelling and style (font and format) suggestions throughout the entire Word document.

sciPROOF Databases

sciPROOF is currently equipped with the following databases:

• PubMed and PubMed 2 - Contains scientific, medical, and chemical terms from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The terms in these databases can be modified with styles (fonts and formats), and definitions, notes, and WWW links can be added to these databases.
• Greek symbols - Contains the entire Greek alphabet. This is a read-only database.
• Demo - Contains a set of “pre-styled” terms for demonstration purposes. This is a read only database.
• Custom 1 - Custom database for storing custom terms. User can add, modify or delete terms from this database.