Check spelling as you type, or not? Choose here. You use Word’s spelling checker every day, and probably just as often encounter some of the tool’s puzzling behavior. Do you know how to get rid of a ...

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" ...

One of the things I love most about Firefox is its built-in spell checker, which displays a squiggly red line under misspelled words typed into Web forms, Google Docs, and most other data-entry areas.

When you misspell a word in Microsoft's Office 365 Web Apps, the app relies entirely on your browser's spell check feature to correct it. On a computer running the Windows 8 operating system, however, ...

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Q. The other day I accidentally added an incorrect spelling to my Word dictionary after clicking on Add when it questioned the spelling of a word by underlining it with a wavy red line. So I screwed ...

Though it is not touted as a flagship feature, OS X ships with several useful tools that spell and grammar check your documents as you write. These options are hidden in the system preferences and app ...

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 ...