Google has long offered its “Did you mean:” spelling corrections and even fixed your slight typos in its auto-completing suggestions. Now Google.com will actively suggest spelling fixes in drop-down suggestions, offering an easy go-to spellcheck tool. More »
Chrome: After The Deadline, a powerful spelling and grammar checking tool, has arrived as a Google Chrome extension with all its text-fixing powers intact. It catches typos and bad writing, and allows you to customise key phrases and website rules. More »
Firefox: As you make the rounds commenting at your favourite blog or composing a lengthy email, avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline’s excellent grammar and spellcheck Firefox extension. More »
Spellcheck within a web form is very handy, but potentially annoying if you favour Australian spellings over the US alternatives. If you’re a Google Chrome user, there is an option to set up Australian spell-checking instead. More »
Typos are bad enough when they result in gibberish like “procedurw,” but words that are close together and technically correct—like “manager” and “manger”—will easily slip by Word’s spell check. If you find yourself making those kind of situational typos often, the Productivity Portfolio blog can walk you through creating an “Exclude Dictionary” to have Word’s checker prompt you whenever it finds certain words. That way, you’re the one who decides whether you meant the guy who deploys and manages work or the staple of nativity scenes. What are your biggest spell-check frustrations? Offer up your knuckle-whitening gripes in the comments.
Catch Mistakes with Word Exclude Dictionary [Productivity Portfolio via TheJobBored]
