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Why does Microsoft Word still display a button for its Spell Check tool? [closed]
For as long as I can remember, Microsoft Word has auto checked my spelling for everything I typed in as I typed it. Also, as long as I can remember, MS-Word has also included a Spell Check button to ...
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How to make Chrome spell check the whole text field?
On Firefox, whenever a word is incorrect in a text field, it is underlined in red.
Chrome does the same but the difference is that it underlines in red only when I move the caret over the word. So if ...
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Microsoft Office 2007 Spell Check not working
I recently installed Powerpoint 2007 on my computer and spell check is not working. Whenever I type in a misspelled word this error comes up.
"Microsoft Office PowerPoint can not perform language ...
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Activating automatic spell checking on Opera and Opera-Next
I am an ex-user of Firefox that has recently migrated to Opera-next (12.00 beta 64-bit Linux edition). I would like to know how to activate spell checking on text fields by default in opera. Spelling ...
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Turn off spellcheck in OneNote 2010
How to disable spellchecker in all OneNote 2010 documents? I want it to be off by default in all my current and future documents/notes.
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How to fix broken spell checker in Chrome
Recently my Chrome no longer checks my spelling. The "Enable spell checking" is checked on, but the spell checker does nothing. It does not check spelling, there is no suggestions for any word I type ...
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Check for spelling mistakes in folder names
Many programs are available to check for spelling mistakes or wrong grammar.
Is it possible to use spell checking on folder names?
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How do I force Outlook to use a given proofing language all the time?
I have Outlook's default language set to one language, but when I reply to an email written in another, my proofing switches to that language.
In my case, the languages are English (US) and English ...
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Hotkey to toggle spelling check in microsoft word
I need to switch the checking quickly since I often work with Vietnamese and English files.
Please help!
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Spell Checking File Names
How can I spell check file names? My spelling isn't at all great, and I rely on MS Word, Google Chrome etc. to make sure I don't publically embarass myself with improper spelling.
How can I clean up ...
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Online website to check my blog's spelling mistakes [closed]
I have a blog & around 70 articles on them. I have made lot of spelling mistakes on them & now i want to correct it. Is there any free online tool which takes my Rss fields & returns ...
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Why is it auto spell check isn't enabled for Title/Subject
I have noticed that both Firefox/Outlook don't have auto spell check for the subject text box of emails. For Firefox, I am referring to Yahoo web mail.
The subject is supposed to contain texts, then ...
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Special characters in the input of hunspell are treated as space
I am testing hunspell in the command line with a swedish dictionary.
The input in the interactive mode replaces all special characters (for example å ä ö) with blanks before spell cheching.
Hunspell ...
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Microsoft Outlook 2003 Spell Checker
I'm forced to use Outlook at work, and I have a couple of questions about the spell checker. The option of not using the spell checker is an option, but my speling is sufficiently bad that it's ...
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Microsoft Word 2010 not spell checking some paragraphs / sections
Microsoft Word 2010 (Professional) is not spell checking some paragraphs for some reason but I would like it to do so.
If I crtl a > under review tab, language, set proofing language dialogue box > ...
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Language Pack didn't install dictionary for spell check for office 2010
I downloaded the language pack for Portuguese, but in word when I try to do the spell check it says the dictionary isn't installed. When it go to languages in options it shows that Portuguese is ...
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Is there a way to use the native OS X spell checking in Firefox?
Is there a way to use the native OS X spell checking in Firefox? I think the answer is probably no, because this question was asked concerning Thunderbird on OS X, but maybe it's different with ...
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Changed spell check language; Word and Pages still use the old language
I moved from the U.S. to Canada, and I'm changing my Mac to spell check in Canadian English instead of American. I went to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Spelling, and changed the ...
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Where to add option for auto spellcheck in Word 2007
I can't seem to find the option to set "underline misspelled words in red" in Word 2007. Where is this located?
Do I have to install additional tools to have this option, or it's included with ...
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word 2010 spell checker chokes on Camel Case
This is driving me nuts. I'm using Word to summarize books I study. Now, for a term such as
BindingOperations.ClearBinding
It first complains about why I don't have "Binding Operations". Then ...
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Is there a way (an app) to automatically detect the language you are typing in and switch to the appropriate (spellcheck) dictionary?
I type about equally in both my native language and English. Spellchecking is less important when using my native language but it would still be nice to have it - or at least to deactivate English ...
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How can I disable spell checking for a block of text in TextMate?
When I am editing a plain text document and making notes in it, TextMate will put red lines under parts of it which should not be spell checked:
How can I disable spell checking for a block of ...
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Switch between two languages for spell checking in Google Chrome for Mac
Environment: Mac OS X 10.7.2, Chrome 15.
This is how chrome://settings/languages looks like:
When I right click on a text box and go to Spell-checker Options, I get a lot of languages there, but ...
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Is there way to add Language shortcuts in Mac OS X?
On iOS, I could add a language short cut easily in settings. Like gd stands for "have a good day". Is there a way of doing that on a Mac?
I don't know if this is even possible since OS X doesn't ...
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Google Chrome AutoCorrect?
Is there a spell checker for Google Chrome that can automatically fix certain spelling errors?
Just like MS office has an auto correct feature, is there anything similar for Google's Chrome?
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MS Word custom dictionary making spellcheck slow - ideas?
I have a user who edits technical materials. She uses MS Word's Custom Dictionary all the time for spelling; it has grown very large, and is now making spell check very slow.
All of the advice I've ...
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Can I create my own custom 'language' for OneNote spellchecking?
Do you know a way to add SQL, Perl, C# or any other programming language's keywords as a custom language to OneNote?
We use OneNote to document our work.
When I add code (SQL, other) to a new page, ...
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Custom rule for browser dictionary
Many companies and organizations combine two words, and capitalize them both, forming their name (ex: SuperUser and StackExchange). Both words individually are spelled correctly, however because ...
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Getting Microsoft Word Grammar Check to treat certain words as proper nouns [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I get the spellchecker in MS Word to remember my grammar decisions
I have a word document which frequently refers to a computer system called "I/90". When I run a ...
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Vim: correct spell files are not loaded
I want to use spell checking in vim.
I did this already:
:set spelllang=nl
Upon which vim downloaded the needed nl.utf-8.spl into ~/.vim/spell/.
When I do zg on a word to add it to the spelling ...
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Switching active spellchecker language in Chrome using a key shortcut instead of context menu
I am looking for a way to quickly switch active language of spell checker in Chrome. The original way to do is to use right-click on the text field, choose Spell Checking[1] from the menu and then ...
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Font affects MS Word's spell check ability?
When I use the Wingdings font, the spell checker doesn't work (Wingdings isn't the only font I have this problem, there are others).
How can I fix this, how can I force the spell checker to ignore ...
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How can I spell check web pages from the browser?
How can I spell check web pages when browsing them? I've added the After the Deadline Chrome extension, but it only seems to work on forms and not whole web pages. I'm happy to use Firefox if that ...
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Activate spell checking in Excel - Office for Mac 2011
How can I activate spell checking in Excel in Office for Mac 2011? I would like to have spell checking just the way it is in Word or system wide in OS X.
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How can I disable auto spelling for certain words in Excel?
I am working in Excel and I'm testing it with various values in the cells. Whenever I insert the word Cafe. Excel changes it automatically to Café
I don't want this.
Is there any way I can disable ...
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How to change the spell checking language in Chromium?
When write I need spell checking in Danish or English (one at a time, not both at the same time), but changing from one language to the other is not working well for me.
Example: Writing an email in ...
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How to install spanish dictionary for ispell Emacs in OS X
I am trying to install the spanish dictionary for ispell, espa~nol 1.11. The most up-to-date source I was able to find is from the ispanish package at ...
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Why does Excel 2007 changes the text “HSA”to “HAS”?
Working on Excel 2007 I am trying to populate a cell with the text HSA. However, when pressing enter, the text changes automatically to HAS.
I assume there is a kind of auto spelling correction here, ...
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How do you get Word 2010 to spell check inside tables?
Word doesn't even recognize mispelled words when I have "check spelling as you type" boxed checks in the proofing options. I've even purposely mispelled words inside tables and they don't show as ...
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Problem with Firefox Spellchecker for English
I'm using Firefox with this Spell Checker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/united-states-english-spellche/
It proposes to write Up vote instead of upvote and similar with many other ...
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Medium Sized List of English Words
I'm attempting to write a program with a spell check/auto-complete feature. For this I need a decent sized list of the most common English words. The problem I've ran into is that there is a great ...
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gedit missing spell check database
Spell check is installed and enabled in gedit, but the dictionary seems to be missing. When I enable autocheck spelling every word is highlighted as incorrect (and yes, some of them are spelled ...
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Setting Microsoft Word completely to another language
When I'm using the English language in MS-Word 2007, it does indeed use a new dictionary, but the automatic caption names are still in my own language (Dutch).
For example: If I use insert caption I ...
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Spell checking reStructuredText
I'm writing and correcting API documentation in Sphinx using reStructuredText. Does anyone know of a good spellchecker that will handle this format, or a bunch of Unix/Linux tools that will allow me ...
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(How) can I use my Mozilla dictionaries in my texteditor?
A large majority of the stuff I write is written online via Firefox or in emails via Thunderbird.
I use the English and German spell-checking feature a lot and I find the spell-checking works to my ...
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Turn off spell checking for HTML signature in Thunderbird
Is there a way to turn off spell checking for an HTML signature added in Thunderbird? Some css style to specify, perhaps?
Context:
Thunderbird 3.1.10
Using multiple dictionaries
Using Dictionary ...
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Disable Spell Check, Thesaurus, Dictionary (Microsoft Word 2007)
How do I disable all 'proofreading' features in Microsoft Word 2007 for all users on a local machine?
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Looking for precompiled binaries of the latest Hunspell for windows
I want to install Hunspell on windows, but on the sourceforge page I find only the sources. There are some binaries too, but they are for only very old versions.
Is there a place where I can find ...
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Is it possible to change the Microsoft Spell Check default from “Ignore Once” button to “Change” button?
I cannot figure out, when running Spell Check in any Microsoft Office program, if it is possible to change the default from "Ignore Once" to "Change" so that I do not repeatedly tab down to "Change".
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Why does my Firefox spell checker marked “realize” and “analyze” as misspelled?
The suggestions it gave were "realise" and "analyse", so I went to the COCA (The Corpus of Contemporary American English), and it turned out that what I've spelled was most commonly spelled, and what ...
