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Observe F7 in the installed Word with synthetic text, then replace the central correction form with a right-side task pane. Show sentence context, directly clickable suggestion cards and ignore/dictionary links. Use the existing pane host, palette and original icons; copy no Microsoft assets. Keep per-window state and clear targets on document switch. Adapt UI tests, pseudo-localization exemptions and light/dark previews. Record observed measurements and remaining feature differences. Local cargo xtask ci was attempted but cargo is absent; exact-head hosted checks and visual comparison remain required.
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Spelling and grammar task pane
Last updated: 2026-10-26 · Status: implementation proposed; hosted checks and rendered comparison remain required before integration.
Word reference
Observed the actual Word for Windows interface on the preparation PC on 2026-10-26, using a newly created document with the synthetic sentence "Le chat mange une souri. Ce documant contient une faute." F7 selected "documant" and opened a right-side pane titled Vérification. Existing documents were left unchanged. The exact Word build was not recorded.
At a 1920 × 1152 window, the pane occupied approximately 400 logical pixels on the right. Its body had a category heading and dictionary explanation, a framed sentence context approximately 48 px high, a Suggestions heading, and three bordered suggestion rows approximately 68 px high. Ignore Once, Ignore All and Add to Dictionary were text actions below the list. A suggestion's chevron opened Read Aloud, Spell Out, Change All and AutoCorrect actions. These are observations, not a copied screenshot or asset.
WordCraft uses this arrangement and its shared pane host, icons, typography and theme palette. Clicking a suggestion applies the correction directly and advances; the central modal proposal is superseded. The pane supports sentence context, Read Aloud through the existing command, manual replacement and AutoCorrect actions. Word's dictionary definitions/synonyms, Spell Out and Change All are not implemented here. Visual similarity must be assessed from the generated light/dark previews; implementation alone is not evidence of pixel identity.
Scope and behavior
Review › Spelling & Grammar, Home › Editor and F7 open the task pane. The pass begins at the next issue from the current selection and continues to the end of the current story (body, header, note or other active text), not all document stories or only a selection. Each correction uses the existing review command and remains undoable. Ignore Once advances without changing the document or dictionaries. Ignore All lasts for the session; Add to Dictionary uses the personal dictionary. Those two actions are offered only for spelling issues. Completion remains visible; Check Again starts a wrapping search. The pane host supplies Close and docking.
If another command changes the document body or selection, a cached suggestion is refused; Check Again obtains a fresh target. Read-only/protected document commands retain their checks. The pane is local to each window, clears on a document switch and does not alter the compact right-click menu. Programmatic review commands return structured results without opening UI.
This work is independent of French contribution #3185. It consumes language-aware engine results and adds neither dictionaries nor grammar rules. Labels use the external shared translation lookup with English fallback for missing keys. No release date or readiness increase is implied.
Verification
- Engine: one-/two-paragraph navigation, forward-only completion and explicit wrapping.
- UI: direct suggestion correction and undo, Ignore Once progress/completion, Ignore All, personal dictionary addition, stale selection/body refusal, completion and Close, per-window isolation and document switching.
- Offscreen: the ignored spelling_review_dialog_preview test writes light/dark PNGs for comparison with the recorded Word arrangement.
- Required gate: cargo xtask ci. Cargo is unavailable on the preparation PC; hosted validation is required, and test definitions alone do not establish success.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | minor | Actual Word for Windows observation replaces the modal proposal with a right-side Proofing pane, sentence context and directly clickable suggestion cards |
| 2026-10-26 | minor | Separate language-independent correction-form proposal and verification scope |