About spell checker

Hello
At this time, the embedded spell checker is gone.
Of course the System's spelling checker is available BUT for a foreign user it's boring.
As a french guy for instance, my checker is set to check french.
When I enter this forum, I am polite enough to try to write in "quite" english.
With the old embedded checker it was automatically set to english.
Now, I must set my system checker to english and reset it to french when I leave the forum.
This is exactly what I describe as upgrading backwards.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 25 novembre 2005 10:31:09)

Yvan,
you could simply set your system spell checker to "Multilingual" - works just fine for me for writing in multiple languages...
Andreas

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This discussion is getting confused. The question was about spell check but most of the discussion is about Dictionary. Command-Control-D should pop up a definition of the word the mouse is pointing at (no click needed). But the word has to be spelled right.
For spell check: Select *Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Spelling While Typing*. If a word you type is not recognized, it should be underlined with a dashed red line. Put the mouse pointer on an underlined word. Control-Click on the word. The first item or several items in the pop-up menu should be suggested alternatives for the misspelled word.
It sounds like that is what you are expecting. Does that not work when you do as I described?

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*Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
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When I started using Pages 08, I turned on the Spelling --> Check Spelling As You Type. One day it stopped to work, in fact I do not know whether it is working or not since the red lines that highlighted incorrectly-spelled text no longer appeared. I tried turning the feature on and off several times, and fiddled with Text Inspector, but have foind no solution to this. Please advise, anyone. Thanks.

Repairing Permissions did not do anything for me. I have tried various and other sundry things as found in other messages about this major issue w/ Pages, but to no avail. Spell check works fine in other apps, TextEdit for example.

How can I get Apple to pay attention to improving spell check and grammar?

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How to troubleshoot issues that Spell Check is not working in Outlook 2013

When composing a new message in Outlook 2013, we may notice that Spell Checker does not recognize misspelled words. When we enter a completely garbage word in Outlook, it won’t be marked as misspelled with a red wave underline. When encountering such issue,
we may follow the troubleshooting guide below to correct it.
1. Make sure you are not typing in the signature area.
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the normal context menu, then you are not typing in the email body.
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Language will open.
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Language dialog box, and then click Set As Default.
3. Enable Check spelling as you type.
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4. Make sure that you are not using a standalone version of Outlook or mixed versions of Word and Outlook.
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6. Recreate the NormalEmail.dotm and Normal.dotm template
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command, then type outlook /safe and press Enter. If the problem disappeared in safe mode, then go to File > Options > Add-ins and disable the suspicious add-in to resolve the problem.
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In a prior version of Firefox I found a website somewhere that told me what to do to enable spell checking for text boxes that are just one line. I got used to being able to send an e-mail with a Subject Line that didn't have a misspelling. Now it doesn't work. Please tell me how I can enable that again. I am on a Mac using Firefox 6.0.2. Thanks!

See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Spell_checking
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/layout.spellcheckDefault
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Bug? Mailto: in combination with Office 2013 Spell Checking.

Dear community,
For one of our sollutions we use the mailto protocol to send a hyperlink which users can use to automatically open a predefined new-email-window.
This works fine with Office Professional Plus 2010 [EN-US] (32bit) in combinatione with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2010 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit).
However, Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] (32bit), in combination with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit), crashes whenever the spellingcheck is started.
The mailto-command we use to reproduce this problem is (enter command in Internet Explorer, open with Outlook):
mailto:[email protected]?subject=%20Actie%20vereist&body=%5b2103162%2f335159076094968874376260057075247208793%5d
During analyses we concluded:
- Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.2 (Full Scan) did not find any related issues.
- Spellchecker crashes while checking the text within the body.
- Uninstalling Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands solves the problem, but obviosly, we want to keep the Dutch spelling check functionality.
- Standard Englsh (U.S.) spellchecking functions without problems.
- This problem is reproducable on any computer running Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] in combination with the Dutch (Nederlands) spelling check. Tried multiple hardware configurations (Intel based) and multiple OS's (Windows 7 Enterprise
(64bit), Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64bit), Windows 8.1 Pro (64bit). All with the same result.
Is there way to solve this issue, without loosing Outlook 2013 as client and Dutch Spelling Check capabilities?
Kind regards,
Leon Kandelaars.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reaction.
Q - Do you mean Outlook crashes when we click the Spelling & Grammar button under Review tab?
A - Yeah, if you try to edit the mail and have 'check spelling as you type' activated, it wil crash as well.
Q - If we copy the email body and paste it to a new email message, will this issue continue?
Does this issue happen with other Office 2013 programs? Please try to use 'spell check' in word and check if the same issue occurs.
A - If you copy the generated body to a new email or Word 2013, the spelling check will in both cases crash the application.
Q - In addition, we can also have a look at the event log to see if we can find anything useful.
A - The crash generates an "Application" "Hang error". I've generated 2 (1 with Outlook, 1 with Word):
Generated mail, spellcheck crashes Outlook:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:52:31
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program OUTLOOK.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 87c
Start Time: 01d05b0effb4e6f8
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE
Report Id: bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:52:31.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14242</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>87c</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0effb4e6f8</Data>
 <Data>0</Data>
 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Copied body to Word, spellcheck crashes Word:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:57:15
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program WINWORD.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 964
Start Time: 01d05b0fe8e683af
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE
Report Id: 6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:57:15.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14247</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>WINWORD.EXE</Data>
 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>964</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0fe8e683af</Data>
 <Data>0</Data>
 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE</Data>
 <Data>6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

The Firefox spell checker has the option for me to add custom words to the dicionary. Please tell me how to delete a word from this file of custom words because a mispelled word got in there by mistake.

I want to know how to delete words from the custom dictionary in the spell checker that I put there by mistake.

In your profile directory, the file is '''persdict.dat''' and you should know how to get to your profile. One way is to enter '''about:support''' in the location bar then click on "Open Containing Folder". Or go through the Help menu > Troubleshooting Information > ...
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You guys are loosing market share for a reason, we need a functional non bloated browser that doesn't freeze and crash all the time,  forget the fancy add-ons and themes, make the  basics work because from the techiest person to the most useless pleb luddite, we all need the basics to work or the browser is a useless piece of  crap.
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Greetings,
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Edited by: user11049393 on Jul 12, 2012 11:07 AM

Hi Sachin:
Actually, after my message yesterday, I managed to find the document, buried in with the OPPM technical docs. Looks identical to the OPPM v.8 version. Thanx for your help.
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