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My computer has been giving me fits for about a week, so, since it is largely free, the Microsoft Store, volunteered to look at it for free, and I accepted. It is horrible to move this All in one around, almost out of my ability to do it. On the second day, they say they found that my HD is failing, so I looked into putting a HD in, and found that on my HP Envy, this model has a screen that is glued into place. Subsequent models apparently started using screws to secure it. So, I decided not to change the HD, and also avoided all the formatting and software installation headaches. I'm about to change to another computer, but in the mean time have been running the HP. Anything I write is going on a portable HD.
The issue that makes me a bit cranky is that right now my Spell Checker Dictionary seems to be imbecilic. This is true on Big Closet, and Word and Facebook. So where exactly does the Spell Checker reside. Is it on my own computer?
I just noticed that something changed a word in "21 Century" that I had as enured to insured. Admittedly enured is a colloquial word but I'm a bit old too. I put it back the way I wanted it.
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Errant Spell Checker...
Of the three you mentioned, only MS Word has an integrated spell checker. If you are seeing corrections or if auto-corrections are occurring in other software, it is likely, a third party app that has been installed. Those can be software added to your Operating system or software extensions (aka add-ons or whatever the specific browser calls them) to your web browser. I'm guessing the latter; Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and others have auto-correct extensions that you or someone else has added. Grammarly and others have integrations into Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. (Grammarly is easy to identify; it has a green "G" in the bottom right corner of the message box)
It is likely that if you are seeing it in BC and Facebook that the correction is associated with your web browser. Look at the extensions section of the web browser, and you may find a grammar/spell check extension is installed. Changing the settings on extensions is highly dependant on the extensions so for more specific aid, you may need to do some research or if you identify it; someone may be able to help you more specifically.
This may at least get started in finding the source; I think you're still a ways off from solving the problem.
Hugs,
Leila
Most web browsers have an in
Most web browsers have an in-built spell checker that checks text in text boxes. Chrome I know has a native spell check function. I have no clue if the information is central to the OS or central to Chrome.
-Piper
I stand corrected :)
I stand corrected :)
Thanks Piper!
Hugs,
Leila
External spell-checker
On the Linux environment, there are at least three spell-checker options that you can choose. And they are shared by many of the other applications. They are: aspell, myspell and hunspell.
LibreOffice defaults to hunspell, though you can change that quite easily. And Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird) also uses one of those. So all applications that link to the same spell-checker share the same installed language dictionaries. Though the custom user dictionaries tend to be application specific.
On the other hand, I turn off the auto-correct feature as a mater of course. Especially considering that I use at least three different languages on a daily basis. And with some rather eclectic vocabulary needs, and doing legal translations, I can not afford to have words change without my express say-so. Though I often use the automatic spell-check to underline questionable words as I write, some times I turn even that off to avoid distractions.
In LibreOffice I do have a custom list of auto-replace sequences for words or symbols that I use frequently. Some of these are not easy to keyboard, others are tedious to constantly type out, so I assigned easy to remember and mnemonics to speed up my writing. Other than that, each "correction" has to be explicitly approved by yours truly.
Jessica
hunspell
The name "hunspell" sounds like a horizontal-mode TeX command.
-- Daphne Xu
spell check
What you do Gwen, DON'T activate auto-spell check. I once did, and it drove me nuts, yeah, I know, short drive.
Karen
Re: corrected "enured" to
Re: corrected "enured" to "insured". Please, for sanity's sake, disable autocorrect! A spell-checker is fine, but ... "Damn You Autocorrect" is such a common reaction that it has become URLed. Texting example:
Son: "I'm having the best weed of my life!"
Dad: "Me too. Where did you get yours?"
Son: "Argh! I meant `week'. Wait, what?"
Dad: "Let's not let Mom know about this."
-- Daphne Xu
Better Example
In that example, "weed" could have been a genuine typo. But this is unambiguously autocorrect:
Mom: "How's my pregnant little daughter?"
Daughter: "Mom, how did you know?"
Mom: Oops, I meant `perfect'."
Mom: "Wait what?"
Autocorrect has been known to induce ideas about Mom and Dad (and Grandma and Grandpa) that Son or Daughter would rather avoid thinking. Even traumatizing them for life.
-- Daphne Xu