Questions tagged [spell-check]
A spell check is the act of checking a document for spelling and/or grammatical errors. Many applications, including text editors, browsers and email clients include a spell checking program by default.
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Firefox French spell checking suddenly enforcing 1990 simplified spelling rules: bug or feature?
I noticed, using Firefox 142.0 (snap) on Xubuntu 24.04, that the spell checker suddenly started underlining as mistakes lots of French words containing the “accent circonflexe” diacritic (^). I tried ...
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Sublime Text spell-check marks all words with apostrophes
Sublime Text app (build 4200) on Mac (Sequoia 15.5) falsely underlines all words containing an apostrophe (’, which I type by pressing optionshift]) in red color and counts them as misspellings.
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LibreOffice spell-chek with custom Sanskrit terminology dictionary in English / multi-language document not working
I frequently work on documents written in English or Finnish while having terminology in Sanskrit (using IAST Sanskrit transliteration). I have created a custom dictionary, "Sanskrit IAST.dic,&...
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MS Word method Application.CheckGrammar() not working
Environment: Office 2021 under Windows 11
The MS Word method Application.CheckGrammar() is supposed to return a Boolean for whether the string given to it is grammatically correct. However, I am ...
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Spell checking language in Microsoft Notepad using multiple languages
In Windows 11 Microsoft introduced a spell checker in Notepad (version 11.2402.18.0). According to some sources e.g. blogs.windows.com or elevenforum.com, it's supposed to be able to handle multiple ...
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How to disable Auto Capitalization in new Outlook
The new Outlook (Version 1.2024.619.100, Client version 20240614008.17) incorrectly capitalizes some letters for me, for example the following:
Hallo,
das ist ein Test.
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I need to have both English and German in Libreoffice spell check
I have installed the language packs for both, however I also need to have both activated at the same time. In the options I can only select one language at a time. Isn't it possible to have spell ...
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MacOS spellcheck is British but the keyboard is US English
I am running Ventura 13.6.6, with Ukrainian and US English keyboards set up. And yet, spellcheck keeps pushing British English spelling. Organize is corrected to Organise & flavor is corrected to ...
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How can I get my computer (macOS) to reference the proper spelling of medical terminology to enable proper autocorrect & spell check?
I am using MacOS and need to write documents which use a lot of medical terminology. Currently, the system detects many of these words as being incorrectly spelled (even when they are not), or invalid ...
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How do I stop File Explorer from spell checking the search box?
For the past several months, searching for anything with Windows File Explorer is frustrating because it attempts to spell check the search phrase. If I do any type of multi-word search, Windows will ...
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How to activate spell checking for Stack Exchange sites with Firefox on Windows 11
Recently, Firefox does not offer me spell checking when I write questions on Stack exchange sites (e.g., right now typing this question full of typos: dsgdsg jdtjstg). I used to have this problem only ...
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How can I edit/delete the wrong word in the spell check dictionary in macOS Sonoma 14.0?
I accidentally added an incorrect word to the spell check dictionary when I use the WhatsApp Desktop.app on macOS Sonoma. How can I edit/delete the wrong word?
I browsed System Settings / Keyboard and ...
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Using aspell to check many files in a cancellable way
I'm on macOS and using zsh. I have about a hundred Markdown files which I would like to spell check from the command line. It seems like aspell is the right way to do this, however I want to be able ...
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Installing spell-checking extension in portable LibreOffice fails
I had an issue with a German document being opened in portable LibreOffice using Windows 10:
Writer complained that the spelling module was missing, but when I tried to install the extension, it ...
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How to undo a grammer rule saved by Outlook 365 desktop by mistake
So I type a line that is NOT supposed to end in a period. It was a line of text that was not meant to have a period, like a poem. Outlook grammar asks if I always want to ignore this error and not bug ...
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