Spell Check

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  davidputnam · Member · Mar 2, 2006 at 3:53 pm

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  Maybe it’s just me, but I’m a terrible speller. I find myself really wishing WordPress had a spell check when writing a post. It may be difficult and/or expensive to implement, but I just thought I would let you know that it’s wanted. Great job to the WordPress crew nontheless.

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  sourcefiles · Member · Mar 2, 2006 at 5:59 pm

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  If you’re running Firefox – and if you’re not, you should :) – just install Google bar and use its spell checker for all web forms.

  Alex.

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  drmike · Member · Mar 2, 2006 at 8:01 pm

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  This has been covered many times in other threads. You may want to do a search as I believe it’s on the staff’s to do list.

  -drmike

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  davidputnam · Member · Mar 2, 2006 at 8:34 pm

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  I apologize. I should have searched a little more. I looked around but didn’t see this topic brought up. Thanks for the suggestion with Firefox (Yes, I use Firefox) and the google toolbar though. I’ll check into that. Thanks.

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  slynne · Member · Jan 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm

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  you know, I had spell check until just this week, and suddenly all I have is “look-up” what is going on?

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  rtallowin · Member · Jan 16, 2007 at 7:48 pm

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  For all my spell checking i use firefox and Microsoft Word

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2007 at 8:10 pm

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  @slynne
  Please note the post on the forum board that says the visual rich text editor has just been updated http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=6851&replies=2

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  drmike · Member · Jan 16, 2007 at 11:16 pm

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  Slynne, it appears that somehow your editor got changed on you. The rich text editor has the spell checker while the normal editor has the lookup feature.

  You can switch between them at Dashboard -> Users -> Your Profile -> The check box at the top.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  horseshoesandhandgrenades · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 9:16 pm

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  Like Slynne, this happened to me today too. If this is a common thing that has happened to several people today, perhaps a sticky with this solution should be posted.

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  drmike · Member · Jan 20, 2007 at 9:18 pm

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  Interesting blog title. :)

  It’s been happening on and off for quite sometime.

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  rexiedexie · Member · Jan 22, 2007 at 5:23 am

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  Hi all

  Rexiedexie here. I just joined world press.

  I use a spell checker available at SpellCheck.net I linked to it from my web pages. You can do this to, It makes it easier to just click on and use.

  See heading spell check here

  http://www.aselectchoice.com.au/Gm/toolstwo.html

  Regards Michael Clayton (rexiedexie)