spell check

[jarvis]

I just purchased a new lap top that has windows vista home premium and I
created a rich text document but I can't find spell check. So my question is
do vista home premium have spell check?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I just purchased a new lap top that has windows vista home premium and I
created a rich text document but I can't find spell check. So my question is
do vista home premium have spell check?

Spell checking would be a function of a word processing application,
not the operating system. What specific application did you use to
create the document? If you used Vista's built-in and very rudimentary
WordPad, there is no spell check capability.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Bob]

Spell check is a function of the software you are using to create the
document, not Vista.

 

[jarvis]

Yes, that is what I used the word processing (Wordpad - Rich text)
application that came with the computer. So is there a way to upgrade the one
that came with the computer or do I have to purchase a totally new software
inorder to run spell check.

 

[Bob]

MS Works may have been included with your PC.

Otherwise, you can download the free OpenOffice.
http://www.openoffice.org/

Other free options are Google Docs & Spreadsheets
and Zoho. http://writer.zoho.com/jsp/home.jsp?serviceurl=/index.do

There are many choices for free online spell checkers.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I just purchased a new lap top that has windows vista home premium and I
created a rich text document but I can't find spell check. So my question is
do vista home premium have spell check?

No version of Windows has ever included a spell checking function.
Such a function is provided by an application, not the operating
system.

If your word processing application doesn't have this functionality,
you may be able to find a third-party program that can add it.

 

[ceed]

Bruce Chambers wrote:

|jarvis wrote:
||I just purchased a new lap top that has windows vista home premium
||and I created a rich text document but I can't find spell check.
||So my question is do vista home premium have spell check?
|
|
| Spell checking would be a function of a word processing application,
|not the operating system. What specific application did you use to
|create the document? If you used Vista's built-in and very
|rudimentary WordPad, there is no spell check capability.

May I suggest a piece of software I have used for years:

Spell Catcher Plus.

This application spell checks nearly all Windows programs I've used. It
has a lot of other handy features as well which I use every day.

Go to:

http://www.rainmakerinc.com/

They haven't officially released their Vista version I think, but
provide a interim update. It has worked so well I haven't checked
lately, so their Vista version may be ready by now.

 

[kreg]

download www.openoffice.org free word processor that includes SPELL CHECK

Be sure to select SAVE AS> and save as WORD DOCUMENT .DOC

in order to save in .DOC format thas is Microsoft Word compatible!

You will love it, and its totally free!

 

[kreg]

In XP when you installed WORD it shared its spell checker with outlook
express

if you added more spell checkers in various languages in word those too were
available for Outlook express

but now I have WORD 2007 and Vista and when I press the spell check in
windows maill
there is a pop up window telling me that the spell check is no longer
available!


whats going on???????

 

[Bob]

This is from Windows Mail Help:

Before you can check the spelling in a message, you must select the language
you want to use.

Click to open Windows Mail.

Click the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling tab.

Under Language, in the drop-down list, click the language you want to use
(English, French, German, or Spanish).

Click Apply, and then click OK.
Note
Although English is displayed as the default language, you must select it if
you want to use it.

In XP when you installed WORD it shared its spell checker with outlook
express

if you added more spell checkers in various languages in word those too
were available for Outlook express

but now I have WORD 2007 and Vista and when I press the spell check in
windows maill
there is a pop up window telling me that the spell check is no longer
available!


whats going on???????

 

[kreg]

I know all that, but it was NOT that.. there is a BUG in vista.. (what da ya
say?)

here is how I resolved the problem using a registry tweak

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/68395-windows-mail-spell-check.html?ltr=W

This is from Windows Mail Help:

Before you can check the spelling in a message, you must select the
language you want to use.

Click to open Windows Mail.

Click the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling tab.

Under Language, in the drop-down list, click the language you want to use
(English, French, German, or Spanish).

Click Apply, and then click OK.
Note
Although English is displayed as the default language, you must select it
if you want to use it.