PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

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 ...

Get more out of the spell-checker built into Firefox and add spell-checking to Internet Explorer via the free IE7Pro add-on. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Sometimes when composing documents in multiple languages, it may be useful to check the spelling in those various languages. Here are some options for how to manage multiple languages in OS X. Topher ...

Microsoft Office 2007 checks your spelling and grammar by default. If it isn't checking your document, someone has disabled the feature. You might disable spell check when a document contains many ...

Microsoft Word is a very useful software when it comes to writing long paragraphs with styling. Almost every writer uses Word on his/her computer. People use Microsoft Word over Notepad because – ...

You can configure Microsoft Office Outlook to handle multiple email services and accounts, such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail; sending emails is a trivial task and the program even helps you catch spelling ...

Activate SpellingCow before you fill out a web form or post a note on a message board and you can enjoy real-time spell-checking. Though intended for site owners who want to add spell-checking ...

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 ...

Personally, I am of the mind that spell check can be a useful tool if you make sure not to rely too heavily on it; I like that it can help you catch typos, as well as prevent you from continually ...

A new window will open where Firefox will check for updates. If updates are available, they will be applied to Firefox automatically. After the installation of updates, you have to restart Firefox. If ...

As Wednesday marks National Grammar Day, it’s interesting to note that vast majority of today’s high school and college students use the Spelling & Grammar Checker feature in either Word or Google ...