PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

Perhaps the most obvious way to build a spell checker is by simply looking up each word in a dictionary. With modern hardware this wouldn’t be too hard, but disks in the ’70s were extremely slow and ...

Sometimes when composing documents in multiple languages, it may be useful to check the spelling in those various languages. Here are some options for how to manage multiple languages in OS X. Topher ...

Get more out of the spell-checker built into Firefox and add spell-checking to Internet Explorer via the free IE7Pro add-on. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Microsoft’s flagship browser, Edge, is equipped with many features. For example, it comes with a spell-checking feature to help you rectify a mistake (misspelled word) in any supported language you ...

The death rate of words has apparently increased recently while new entries into languages are becoming less common, both perhaps because of digital spell-checking, according to a Google-aided ...

Anthony Deighton is chief product officer at Tamr. He has over 20 years of experience building and scaling enterprise software companies. Confession time: I’m a terrible speller. In fact, if I sent ...

If Spell Check is not working in Outlook on your Windows 11/10 PC, then the following suggestions we have outlined below in no particular order should help you resolve the issue on your system. Let’s ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...

Four weeks after the launch of Google’s Chrome 26browser into beta, the final version debuted on Tuesday. The most notable enhancements in Chrome 26 include a new spell-checking engine, as we saw when ...

Hard on the heels of last week’s release of the Chrome 25 browser into the Stable Channel, Google on Tuesday pushed its eventual successor—Chrome 26—into beta. Whereas Chrome 25 was most notable for ...