Thanks for the Spell-check

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GlenL (Ohio)
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Posted:

Thanks HOA Talk for adding the spell-check feature, now if there were only some way to teach posters the difference between there, their and they're.

Studies show that 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions

AnnaD2 (Florida)
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Posted:

Glenn--where is th spel-ck feature> i cant fund it. i must be dunb....i cannot see T

DonnaS (Tennessee)
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Posted:

Me Neethur

hoatalk (California)
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Posted:

Thanks but we actually don't have spell check....we leave that to the current crop of web browsers that include it. I bet you are on FireFox 3? It has one built in. There are free options for IE too....just Google for IE Spell Checker.

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GlenL (Ohio)
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Darn, here I thought I'd discovered a nifty new feature. You're right, I moved over to Firefox after having Internet Exploder 7 (IE7) lock up on me one too many times. For those of you not using Firefox it works just like a regular spell-checker; the questionable word gets underlined in red and if you right click on it you get a series of guesses as to what you meant.

Studies show that 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions

RobertR1 (South Carolina)
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Posted:

Huh!
I loaded the iospellcheck as directed on my IE browser.
I never do any of this stuff right. This time it worked fine, when I finish typing a post, I go to tools on the browsers, all in same window, select "iospell" and the same spell check screen I have on Outlook pops up, clues suspect word and you can fix them. Then go down and hit submit and you are done.

RobertR1 (South Carolina)
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Posted:

Told you I could screw that up.

It is not "iospell", it is "iespell".

MaryA1 (Arizona)
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Posted:

Good news all you bad spellers. I read a long time ago that it's OK to misspell words in internet communications. Everyone uses abbreviations and types quickly so misspellings are the norm. BTW, if you ever see a misspelled word in any of my posts it's because I'm typing too fast. I'm really a very good speller -- that's the truth!

MicheleD (Kentucky)
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Posted:

Firefox has a spellcheck feature?!

. . . been using it all this time and never knew. . ..

GlenL (Ohio)
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Posted By MicheleD on 12/28/2008 6:26 PM
Firefox has a spellcheck feature?!

. . . been using it all this time and never knew. . ..

Well Version 3.0.5 has one, which I mistakenly attributed to HOATalk.

It underlined as questionable, your use of spellcheck and my use of HOATalk.

Studies show that 5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions

RobertR1 (South Carolina)
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Posted:

Glen,
Now that's funny......................and like all truely funny things, they touch on the truth.

MicheleD (Kentucky)
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Posted:

No, I meant I've been using Firefox (yes, I have the most recent update).

I can assure you that I never use spell check!

Where's the fun in that?!

DwightT (Idaho)
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Posted:

Interesting. I knew about the underlining in Firefox (since I run on Linux systems, it's all I use, and with my spelling abilities, I see lots of underlining), but I didn't know about the right-click feature. Thanks for the tip Glen. Now if they could just include a grammar checker....

What is even more interesting though is that the Firefox spell-checker doesn't like the word "Firefox".

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