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 has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983. The new features have been tested by ...

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" ...

Microsoft Notepad isn't considered among the top text editor programs, but it's certainly one of the oldest and most widely installed. Microsoft first introduced Notepad in May 1983, presenting it as ...

A few MacFixIt readers have recently reported an issue where various applications unexpectedly quit when accessing the spell checking component of Mac OS X. One reader writes: "Something has happened ...

Dr. Newbury, a speaker in the Metroplex, may be reached at 817-447-3872; email: [email protected]. Column audio version at www.speakerdoc.com. “Spell Check” — first thought to be a handy computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though it’s intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft’s humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a ...

Today’s column is about spelling, a topic that has been much on the minds of folks here at your East Valley Paragraph Factory. More precisely, the topic is “Spell Check,’’ one of the modern ...

Four weeks after the launch of Google’s Chrome 26browser into beta, the final version debuted on Tuesday. The most notable enhancements in Chrome 26 include a new spell-checking engine, as we saw when ...