Patent Document ID: 6085206
Application ID: 08666227

Base 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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Claim 9:
9. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising the step displaying the sentence containing the misspelled word in a rich text edit field (RTEC) field within the first instance of the combined spelling and grammar dialog box to allow editing of the sentence.