Q. The other day I accidentally added an incorrect spelling to my Word dictionary after clicking on Add when it questioned the spelling of a word by underlining it with a wavy red line. So I screwed ...

One of the things I love most about Firefox is its built-in spell checker, which displays a squiggly red line under misspelled words typed into Web forms, Google Docs, and most other data-entry areas.

Q. I receive a weekly sales report from our European affiliate that has between 1,260 and 2,100 city names spelled using a native spelling that does not match what we use here in our offices (42 city ...

In any Word document, click "File" and then "Options." Open the Proofing tab and uncheck the "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" box. Press "OK." If you have "Check spelling as you type" enabled, all ...

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When you misspell a word in Microsoft's Office 365 Web Apps, the app relies entirely on your browser's spell check feature to correct it. On a computer running the Windows 8 operating system, however, ...

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" ...