I’ve searched, and most of the posts I’ve found are old (and don’t seem to work), so I thought I’d ask: is there no way to do a project-wide spellcheck? I’ve got 86 files in my project, and I’ve been using it passively as I go (look for red squiggles). But now that I’m getting ready to send my manuscript out, I’d love to do a project-wide spellcheck and feel secure it’s (relatively) error-free.
Previously, I’d export to Word and run spellcheck there, but then I have to go back and make sure any mistakes are changed in my Scrivener file. I hope there’s a way to do this.
In Scrivenings view, you can also use a more traditional spell check dialogue box, with Next/Prev buttons and all that, so that you don’t have to scroll and come across them by eye.
On Mac it is Edit ▸ Spelling & Grammar ▸ Show Spelling & Grammar.
Thank you both. I had never used Scrivenings mode before.
For any future folks: on a Mac (Sequoia) and the latest version of Scrivener, it would only work for me if I right-clicked in the text window and selected the Show Spelling & Grammar prompt. If I used the drop-down menu, it wasn’t working—I tested this out by typing in a nonsense word, and the suggested method (using the drop-down menu) would not work for me, however right-clicking in the text window did.
Yes, right-clicking (well, spell checking in general) has been a bit unreliable ever since macOS 14 came out. There is a thread on that over here. We’ve done what we can to minimise interference, but at this point we’re running at about as reliable as the core system (like in Mail, TextEdit, etc.) itself—which isn’t itself 100% reliable. Of course one tends to notice problems more in software where tons of text is being worked upon heavily, than in Messages or Notes or whatever.
The dialogue window is the steady and reliable workaround, if you run into problems with right-clicking on red underlines.