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Product Review -
Total Access Speller For Access 2002
Total Access Speller for Microsoft
Access 2002, $199 FMS, Inc.
I had a chance to put the new version
of Total Access Speller through its paces recently, and it performed
perfectly. You may be wondering why you need an add-on spell checker
when Access has its own built in. The answer, of course, is to check
the things that Access won't: specifically, your user interface. Ever
delivered an application to a client and THEN discovered that you
spelled "iventory" wrong on the main form? Yeah, it's
embarrassing.
TA Speller is designed to save you
from that "oops" sensation. It works as an add-on for Access databases
(though not for projects). In operation, it's simple: Pick the objects
you want to check, pick the properties you want to check, and turn it
loose. TA Speller builds a table of all the property values and
invokes the built-in Access speller to check it. This gives you the
benefit of any changes you've made to the dictionary without having to
re-enter them.
The product works as advertised, and
quickly found a few mistakes in the applications I tested it on. The
user interface is a trifle confusing, because, of course, the
spell-checker shows you the field name that FMS chose in building
their table, and you may wonder what "Ignore 'txtPropertyValue' field"
is all about. But that's the only rough edge I found in a very useful
product.
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