It happens to everyone. You're writing a letter or proposal and you can't decide on the correct spelling of a word. Or maybe you want to use a different word, but you can't think of a synonym. If you ...

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Firefox only: Firefox has long had a handy built-in spell checker, great for proofreading emails, blog posts, and other communications. What if you want to use the built-in spell checker on a static ...

The error can occur due to the options check grammar with spelling turned off; follow the steps below to turn it on. Go to File. Then go to Options on the backstage ...

The Word and PowerPoint Spell check settings are similar. Follow the steps below to disable the spell check in Word or PowerPoint. Launch Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. Finding the spell checker ...

Certain documents can pose problems when spell checking, particularly ones with mixtures of English and foreign languages. Microsoft's Office for Mac 2011 has some easy ways of dealing with these ...

I got an email recently from a reader whose spell-checker flagged the word “uninvolved” as an error. I’m not sure what software she was using. My Microsoft Word ...

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 ...