How do I start Ginger Spell?
Place your cursor inside a sentence and press F2 or click the "Correct"
button in the Ginger Add-In toolbar.
You can place the cursor anywhere in the sentence; Ginger Spell will correct the whole sentence regardless of the cursor location.
Once you review a sentence correction and accept it, Ginger Spell will automatically check the next sentence in the document.
Note: If you want to correct only a portion of the text, you can highlight it and press F2 or "Correct". Ginger Spell will only review the highlighted section.
Download and installation
1.
Quit MS-Word and Outlook.
2.
Click on the "Download Ginger Spell" link*.
3.
Click “Run” to immediately start the installation process (Choose “Save”, if you wish to
install at a different time).
4.
Follow the prompts and Ginger Spell will be installed on your system, ready for use.
5. Start Ginger Spell.
* If your security settings do not allow exe files,
please use the "download Ginger Spell zip file" link. This is a zip file that contains Ginger Spell. After you download and unzip it, the installation begins. Remember to quit Word and Outlook before you install.
Please note: In order to extract the zip file, you may need to download one of these programs:
pkware
www.pkware.com
WinZip
www.winzip.com/index.htm
win-rar
www.win-rar.com
If you encounter any problems during the installation process, please let us know by using our
Beta feedback page
.
Ginger Spell did not install!
Please check the following and try our quick fixes –
- Outlook or MS-Word documents open: Quit those applications and retry.
- You are connected to the internet through an authenticated proxy: Please see related help item.
- You are working on a Mac: Currently we do not support Mac.
- Ginger Spell is already installed on your computer: Uninstall and try again.
- You are signed in the computer as a restricted user: Log off and sign in as an administrator, or turn to your organizations’ administrator and ask him/her to install Ginger Spell on this computer.
- Your Office version is not 2002, 2003 or 2007: Those are the versions currently supported by Ginger Spell.
- You receive the ‘please close Word’ error message even though Word is closed: Please see related help item.
If the above does not help, please write to support@gingersoftware.com and we will be more than happy to assist you.
How do I log in to Ginger Spell?
Click on the 
button in the Ginger Toolbar.
The settings screen will open.
Enter your User Name and Password and press OK.
If you have forgotten your password, click the Forgot Your Password? link to retrieve it.
You only have to log in to Ginger Spell once. If multiple individuals use Ginger Spell on the same computer, we recommend that each user log out at the close of their session, so as to enable Ginger Spell to personalize users’ correction and progress reports.
How do I correct a sentence?
1. Place your cursor inside a sentence and press F2 or click the 
button in the Ginger Add-In toolbar.
2.At the first stage of correction, Ginger Spell identifies incorrectly spelled words in a selected sentence and corrects them.
After reviewing your corrections, click the 
button to apply the change. (If your sentence does not contain spelling mistakes, Ginger Spell automatically moves to the second correction stage. See next step).
3.
At the second correction stage, Ginger Spell detects and corrects misused words – words that are not misspelled, but are wrong in the context of this particular sentence. After reviewing your corrections, click the 
button to apply the change.
4.
Ginger Spell will automatically start correcting the next sentence in the document.
Note: You can stop the correction process at any time, by clicking the 
button. The text in your document will remain as is.
Please explain all the different colors of words.
Ginger Spell highlights corrections using different colors and styles.
The sentence you are correcting appears in two text boxes. The original text is in the upper box, and the corrected text in the lower box.
Words that need to be fixed appear dark red in the upper textbox.
Suggested corrections appear in the lower text box, highlighted according to three types of corrections:
Words in blue are corrections automatically made in high confidence according to the context of the sentence.
Words underlined in red* should be reviewed by the user and crosschecked against the offered alternatives.
Words underlined in black indicate a suggested word replacement.
*If your automation level is set to high [see related help item], these words will be automatically replaced and highlighted blue.
How do I choose an alternative correction?
When you click on a word that Ginger Spell has highlighted in your corrected sentence, a list of alternatives will appear on the textbox on the right of the Ginger Spell panel:
If you want to use one of the suggested words rather than the automatic Ginger Spell correction, simply double click that word.
Note: Suggested alternatives are accompanied by sample sentences illustrating their use. In order to see them in full, hover over the word in question.
Where is Ginger Spell’s toolbar?
The Ginger Spell toolbar is added to the MS Word toolbars. The location of the toolbar depends on the version of MS Word that you use.
In MS Word 2007, the Ginger Add-In is displayed as a small box on the toolbar associated with the Home tab:
In Ms Word 2003 and other MS Word versions, the Ginger Add-In is displayed as part of the standard toolbar:
What does 'higher automation of error correction' mean?
Ginger Spell offers two modes of text review:
The default level of error correction is ‘low’. In default mode, automatic corrections are performed, but sometimes the user is asked to review alternatives. In those cases, the original word is not automatically replaced, but highlighted red and underlined for review. Default automation is recommended for people who prefer to be actively involved in the correction process.
In the higher levels of error correction, words are automatically replaced with Ginger Spell’s corrections. Users can still distinguish between corrections made in high confidence, which are colored blue, and suggested corrections, which are colored blue and highlighted yellow. The high automation level is recommended for people who desire a quicker correction process without the need for review.
To utilize a higher level of automation, click on the “options” button in the Ginger toolbar and choose "Enable higher automation of error correction". You can change automation level at any time.
How do I revert a corrected word to my original word?
If you want to revert a correction to the original wording –
Click on the word you desire to revert.
Click the 
button.
Ginger Spell’s correction is overridden and the original word appears in the corrected sentence textbox.
How do I log out of Ginger Spell?
Click on the button in the Ginger Toolbar.
The settings screen will open.
Click the 
button and then press OK. You are now logged out.
I received this error message: (407) Proxy Authentication Required
If you tried to download Ginger Spell and received this message during installation, it means you are connected to the internet through a proxy server that requires authentication.
Please
change your proxy
settings
to allow Ginger Spell’s installation and automatic updates. You may have to ask your organization’s administrator to do this, if you don’t have the required permissions.
Internet Explorer:
1.
Open the ‘Tools’ menu and go to ‘Internet options’.
2.
Choose the ‘Connections’ tab and click the ‘Lan Settings’ button.
3.
In the ‘Proxy server’ box, click the ‘Advanced’ button.
4.
In the ‘Exceptions’ text box insert: gingerhost.dyndns.org
Firefox:
1.
Open the ‘Tools’ menu and go to ‘Options’.
2.
Choose the ‘Advanced’ tab and in it the ‘Network’ tab.
3.
Click the ‘Settings’ button.
4.
In the ‘No proxy for’ text box insert: gingerhost.dyndns.org
I received an error message asking me to close Word, even though no Word document is open.
It may be that another MS-Office application prevents you from installing Ginger Spell. Quit all open MS-Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) and retry.
If quitting MS-Office applications doesn’t help, go to
Task Manager
and see if there are any ‘Winword.exe’ processes still running. If so, end those processes and retry:
1.
Place your cursor on the blue taskbar at the bottom of the screen
2.
Right click on your mouse and choose ‘Task Manager’
3.
Choose the ‘Processes’ tab and search for a process called ‘WINWORD.exe’.
4.
Click on this process once and click the ‘End Process’ button.
If the above does not help, please write to
support@gingersoftware.com
and we will be more than happy to assist you.
How do I NOT correct a sentence?
After the correction process had been completed, you can choose whether or not to apply the correction to your document.
Click Accept Correction to replace the original sentence in the document text with the proposed Ginger Spell correction.
Click Skip Correction to leave this part of your document as is and ignore Ginger Spell corrections. If you wish to reject a correction for a particular word in the sentence rather than the whole sentence, please see related help item.
How do I uninstall Ginger Spell?
To uninstall Ginger Spell:
1.
Quit MS-Word.
2.
Go to the windows ‘Start’ menu and choose ‘Control Panel’.
3.
Open ‘Add or Remove Programs’
4.
Find Ginger Spell and click ‘Change/Remove’ button
5.
Choose ‘remove this software’ and press ‘ok’.
Please take a moment to let us know why you have decided to uninstall Ginger Spell at
info@gingersoftware.com