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How can I change the spell check and auto-correction language of IE10/Windows8?
Is there any way I can change the spell-check and auto-correct Language of IE10/Windows8? It seems to want me to write Norwegian, but I usually write English...
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Are there any text editors which are Markdown aware and provide spell checking features? [closed]
I'm looking for a text editor that supports Markdown and has a spell check function. I would prefer a Windows program, although I can deal with a Linux solution. I don't own a Mac.
EDIT: Do any of ...
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Change spelling check language for a Document in Microsoft Word 2010
Usually I use Microsoft Word 2010 to write English documents
Now I'm editing a document of another language, and want to change the spelling check language of this document
This change should not ...
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Change the spell-checking language on a PowerPoint presentation
I received a PowerPoint presentation with dozens of slides, each of them with a number of text boxes. Although the presentation is written in English, the language for spell checking is set to ...
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Is there a tool for automatically checking English grammar?
I need to run through a document and check that it contains proper English grammar. My toolset for spell-checking for words include ispell and OpenOffice, but they seem only to do spell-checking.
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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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Can I get the spellchecker in MS Word to remember my grammar decisions
Sometimes Word will make a incorrect grammar suggestion which I can just ignore.
However every time I go to spellcheck it again, it will keep making that suggestion. Is there any way I can get it to ...
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Can I delete dictionary entries in Word?
You know how it is: Red sqiggly line under word, looks OK to me, click on "Add to Dictionary" -- sudden realisation, that's NOT how you spell it. Now what?
Can I make things right again, or am I ...
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Spellcheck in Ubuntu
In MacOS X it is possible to have spellcheck OS wide for all applications where you have an input. Is something similar possible with Ubuntu? So that I have spellcheck for e.g. skype?
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Search for the best spelling and grammar checking tool for English language [closed]
I am searching for the best spelling and grammar checking tool for English language.
I have no problem to buy this tool as long as it runs under linux (OpenOffice)...
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Disable spell checking in Internet Explorer 10 (Windows 8)
I installed the release preview of Windows 8, which comes with Internet Explorer 10.
IE10 has been endowed with a spell checking Feature, which is active while I write this text.
As a matter of ...
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Adding a new language to Opera spell-checking
How can I add Persian language spell-checking ability to Opera. It seems that Opera use aspell for this task.
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Spellchecker for docbook
Is there any good command line spellcheckers for Docbook avaliable that could be configured to ignore certain tags such as <programlisting>.
Preferably it would use hunspell dictionaries since I ...
