As business writers, most of us (including me) use the handy-dandy writing features provided in Microsoft Word. If I believe that I have repeated words, I will access the thesaurus feature to add ...

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983. The new features have been tested by ...

Q: Is there a way to have incorrectly spelled words corrected as you type in Outlook Express e-mail, the same way it happens in Microsoft Word? It's a pain to have to manually spell check every ...

Dr. Newbury, a speaker in the Metroplex, may be reached at 817-447-3872; email: [email protected]. Column audio version at www.speakerdoc.com. “Spell Check” — first thought to be a handy computer ...

Though it’s intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft’s humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a ...

Anthony Deighton is chief product officer at Tamr. He has over 20 years of experience building and scaling enterprise software companies. Confession time: I’m a terrible speller. In fact, if I sent ...

Sometimes when composing documents in multiple languages, it may be useful to check the spelling in those various languages. Here are some options for how to manage multiple languages in OS X. Topher ...

Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...

A few MacFixIt readers have recently reported an issue where various applications unexpectedly quit when accessing the spell checking component of Mac OS X. One reader writes: "Something has happened ...

Anybody out there got advice on how to tweak the built-in spell checker? <BR><BR>I recently bought Mellel, and I'm trying to give it a thorough check out -- with maybe an eye to writing a review of it ...

Hello. I apologize for asking a such an application-specific question in this general forum, but I am desperate. In Microsoft Word, under Windows 7, I'm finding that the "Ignore" and the "Ignore All" ...

Microsoft Notepad isn't considered among the top text editor programs, but it's certainly one of the oldest and most widely installed. Microsoft first introduced Notepad in May 1983, presenting it as ...