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 searches your entire document for misspellings, and if there are none, a spelling dialog ...

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 ...

There are two ways to spell check in Google Docs. You can right-click as you go to receive spelling or grammar suggestions from Google's automatic spell checking algorithm. Alternatively, you can also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A separate program or function within a word processing or other text entry program that tests for correctly spelled words. Spell checkers can test spelling on the fly as the user types, or they may ...