What spellchecking services do you use?

When I am writing content for clients, I find that I can eradicate all typos by printing off my writing and proofreading it on paper before submitting it. However, I was wondering if anyone knew any good internet spellchecking services that I could use to increase my productivity and help me save on ink and paper.

 

Seems pretty 'old school' to be printing and proofing your work on paper. I rely on the spell check function OpenOffice offers.

 

I rely on the built-in spellcheckers in OpenOffice and Firefox. However, I don't think there's anything wrong with proofing your work by hand. You want your content to be as nearly perfect as possible before you publish, and no automated spellcheck is infallible. I prefer to manually check my work, but I do it on-screen rather than printing.

 

I use microsoft office spell check is what I use and it seems pretty good

 

I use ms sometimes even for my posts

Edit: I mean forum posts

 

I too go old school for clients. There's just something about reading words on paper that eliminates the scanning that comes from being over-familiar with a piece. I 'see' things better and I've caught a lot of things that spelling and grammar checkers missed.

 

Firefox comes with an internal spell checker that you can use to your advantage.
The best solution of course is to use an OCR tool that comes with its own internal spell checker.
After extracting text from an image with Microsoft Office Document Imaging, you export the text to Microsoft Word. Here you can use the internal spell checker.

 

I'm used to those one which is in my MS Word. However, this one is also nice http://accuratespelling.com/. But you need to pay for the service.

 

http://www.autogrammar.com is launching soon - that not only spellchecks, it grammar checks too, so you can see if your text will pass Google.

 

I read through what I've written, then edit accordingly. Sure, I use the spell checker in MS Word (it highlights mistakes as I type and even auto-corrects some), but I rarely make spelling mistakes. I just like to go over texts a few times for grammar and readability purposes. There is software that can calculate the flesch reading ease score (in fact, MS Word can do this, too), but no automated process can beat manual editing to ensure readability.

 

use spell checker progs just google it

 

Most my content is written in a browser (blog, forum) and firefox has a spellchecker itself. Not always perfect, but it does the job. Of course, if I was into professional writing, I'd need something better than this.

 

Define soon.

 

not quite as long as 'later'.


But longer than 'imminently'.

 

Ah, clear as mud for such a quick answer. lol

 

Good old MS word spell check does the trick.

 

Nothing better was inwented

 

inwented.... as in "I inwented into teh house avail myself $5 please"

 

I just whatever is used in the browser/program that I am using. Most everything has one these days it seems.

 

All of the above suggestions are useful.But on occassion I'll refer to my old fashioned dictionary that I have on my workdesk.It not only gives me the correct spelling,but also explains the correct definition of the word.
Once in awhile it reminds me that I can use a particular word for different meanings and contexts.