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Since Symphony was a DOS application, it was limited to working within the first 640KB of RAM. Therefore, programmers back in those DOS days had to be very mindful of the size of the applications. And of course, that trickled over into the way they handled extra features that today we take for granted. This was especially true in a complex integrated suite such as Symphony.

For example, Symphony's DOC environment did indeed come with a spell checker, but it wasn't loaded into memory by default. In fact, if you wanted to spell-check your document you first had to load up the spell checking application as an add-in.

You pressed F9 to access the Services menu and selected the Applications Command. Then you located and selected the Speller application.