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" ...

Microsoft Word's spell check has come a long way from when a googly-eyed paper clip unfailingly assumed you were writing a letter. Now it accurately spots grammatical mistakes, autocorrects misspelled ...

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 ...

The Word and PowerPoint Spell check settings are similar. Follow the steps below to disable the spell check in Word or PowerPoint. Launch Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. Finding the spell checker ...

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 ...

On Twitter, the hashtags #SpellCheckWontSaveYou and #SpellCheckCantSaveYou aren’t particularly popular, clocking just a few dozen instances each over the past few years. But for word nerds or anyone ...