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 ...

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 ...

A Spell check is a feature in Microsoft Office that allows users to identify and correct misspelled words; it will search your entire document for misspelled words, and if there is not any, a spelling ...

Google announced today on the Chrome Blog that it is promoting Chrome 26 to the beta channel and including a number of new features in the release. Among the most notable new features included in ...

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 ...

If Microsoft Word's spell check isn't working, make sure the correct language is selected in Options. Also ensure that "Check spelling as you type" is enabled and there isn't a spell check exception ...

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 ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...