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daonlyfreez · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 949 Location: Berlin

tinySpell (free version, Win9x+)

jballi · Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 748 Location: Texas, USA

Excellent program. Highly recommended if you're a bad/lazy speller like me. One bit of unsolicited usage advice: Use a sound to notify you of a spelling error but don't use the default beep. You'll turn if off after 20 minutes. Instead, choose a unique (not used by any other program) short sound that's slightly irritating so it will catch your attention but not so irritating that you'll turn it off.

Spell on!

tidbit · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1807 Location: Minnesota, USA

I used to use this. didn't like it. so i continued my search for a real-time anywhere spellchecker and found AHK (AutoCorrect).
But no longer use that. Decided to not be as lazy.
Very Happy

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Chicken Pie 4 Tea · Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Posts: 375 Location: holland

re tinyspell the use of an American English dictionary would put me off as i am English English and colour is not color o.k.!
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engunneer · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 8255 Location: Maywood, IL

pajenn · Joined: 07 Feb 2009 Posts: 384

I love tinySpell -- not all the time, but I added a hotkey for it into my perma-script so that I pull it out at times when no spell highlighting is provided by the application I'm typing into:

poirmw · Guest

Three short remarks: One to tidbit, one to mouse and one to engunneer.

1. tidbit: It's not a matter of being "lazy." It is just that some of us can spell, but we are not typists and so we occasionally hit the wrong keys. TinySpell catches these errors or "fautes de frappe" as the French say.

2. mouse: You can use an English (UK, Canada, etc.) dictionary. All you have to do is download it from the site. In fact, I use the English dictionary with TinySpell.

3. engunneer: You do not have to have the commercial version of TinySpell to have access to the English (UK) dictionary. Download it and then rename the files to the U.S. name for the dictionary files. In other words, trick the programme into believing that the U.K. dictionary is the U.S. dictionary. The problem here is not that the programme will not accept the U.K. dictionary. It rather is that it will not allow you to select from a list of dictionaries the dictionary you want to use at a particular sitting.