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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correct Grammar is important, no matter you are talking or writing something. Regardless of the language, grammar is the foundation for communication. The better the grammar, the easier it is to ...

Sometimes, you’re just typing an e-mail or note on your iPhone, and you realize that you have no idea how to spell the next word you want to use. It could be genuine ignorance, it could be a brain ...

Windows: Most office suites and word processors have spell-check built in, but if you're working in a tool like Notepad, Wordpad, a web browser, or another tool that won't automatically check your ...

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 ...

You may know how to spell every word in the dictionary, but speedy typing fingers may introduce subtle spelling errors your eyes might miss. In the competitive business world where first, second and ...

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 ...

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 ...