Spell Check

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January 8th, 2004, 09:40 PM
billdecat13

Spell Check

I have only very recently been posting on AO, but I was wondering about the spell check program. I was wondering f maybe AO could use a browser based one, because on some computers (or OS's, I dont know which) it will freeze. I was just wondering if this could maybe be fixed.
January 8th, 2004, 09:42 PM
slick8790

there is one. Have you been using the quick reply? click the post reply button and look towards the bottom. there should be one.

slick
January 9th, 2004, 01:03 AM
Gump

To save time I sometimes will write a post in a word Processor (OK you got me MS Word) and spell check it then cut/copy and paste it into my post. Especially if it is going to be lengthy.
January 9th, 2004, 04:28 AM
thejag

yea, gump (hahah.. dump!) has a good idea.. if my answer is longer than a 2 or 3 lines long, i pop up MS word, and typing away i go, then copy and paste and BAM! done! =D
January 9th, 2004, 04:34 AM
Striek

The spell check doesn't work. It never has, and probably never will.
January 9th, 2004, 06:13 AM
lumpyporridge

Quote:

Originally posted here by Striek
The spell check doesn't work. It never has, and probably never will.

I tried the spell check here once and it crashed my browser (mozilla on slack i believe), once bitten twice shy.
January 9th, 2004, 08:02 AM
jenjen

I've been bitten by that bug myself a few times on IE and mozilla.. probably opera too.

I'm not sure but it's probably been mentioned in oops a bug a few times.
January 9th, 2004, 08:37 AM
PoSer

wow I must be blind I never even noticed the spell check button before.
I must need to get my glasses looked at.

/edit

I just posted this so I could see what spell check button you were talking about.
January 9th, 2004, 09:04 AM
valhallen

there are also progs like this -> http://download.com.com/3000-2056-10248641.html
says it works with basically any windows prog so am assuming would work with your browser as well - I havn't tried it myself but it looks decent enough

v_Ln
January 9th, 2004, 09:09 AM
Abtronic

I'm on IE v6 (latest patches, etc) and the spell checker has crashed it 4/4 times. Has it been posted in the bug forum before?

As someone else mentioned, a word processor is your best option (well, unless its like 3 lines long -- anyone who's smarter than NFG should be able to pick up errors in that :D).
January 9th, 2004, 06:34 PM
moxnix

I found a small very easy to use (free) spelling checker called "ieSpell". It only works on IE though and I use Firebird almost exclusively. You will have to google it, because I don't know the URL and it doesn't show a version or anything to get the address from.
http://www.iespell.com/ (ok, so I googled it)
January 9th, 2004, 08:12 PM
M3mph15

Word Xp is good it kida saves you internet toll if first type there and then paste here