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AnneM (X)
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Feb 17, 2004

Hi,
I am working away from home for a couple of days on a computer which doesn't have US/UK spellcheck installed in Word (nor do I have the installation CD)

Does anybody know of a solution? (apart from sending my texts to a friend who is "tired" of me!)

Thanks,

Anne
 
Michele Johnson
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Online spellchecking Feb 17, 2004

I assume you have internet connection, so might I suggest: http://www.spellonline.com/

You can copy and paste your text there and then it spellchecks for you. I just tested it for 2 pages and it seems to work fine. Not sure if it works for really long texts, but this might be a good interim solution (saves you from having to download/install something).

Good luck!
 
Samuel Murray
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Useful Usenet link Feb 17, 2004

AnneM wrote:
I am working away from home for a couple of days on a computer which doesn't have US/UK spellcheck installed in Word (nor do I have the installation CD).


Google using Google Groups for the answers to a similar post of mine some time ago. Some of the answers are interesting.

Subject line: Free spell checker needed
Newsgroup: sci.lang.translation
 
Nikita Kobrin
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Another online spell-checking tool Feb 17, 2004

Spellink
 
Lia Fail (X)
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http://spellcheck.freeurl.com/ Feb 17, 2004

This one is the biggest I could find after a couple of checks, with a nice presentation. Spellckecker does 1500 characters less.

How unobliging of the "tired" friend!

The one proposed above seems to do larger texts:

http://www.spellonline.com/cgi-bin/spell_1.pl


Does anybody know of a solution? (apart from sending my texts to a friend... See more
This one is the biggest I could find after a couple of checks, with a nice presentation. Spellckecker does 1500 characters less.

How unobliging of the "tired" friend!

The one proposed above seems to do larger texts:

http://www.spellonline.com/cgi-bin/spell_1.pl


Does anybody know of a solution? (apart from sending my texts to a friend who is "tired" of me!)



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AnneM (X)
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Thank you Feb 18, 2004

Thank you everybody for your help.
 


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