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November 11, 2005

Spell Check

Does anyone know of anyway to spell check in MT 2.64? I tried writing my posts in Word and then copy/paste but then the post is all messed up when I paste it in to MT. Any ideas other than a dictionary??? I tried the IESpell but I am on Mozilla.

Thanks,

SR

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat at 02:07 AM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 You need SpellBound

Just hit the Installation link in the left navigation bar of that page, and follow the steps.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 11, 2005 02:54 AM

2 If you use Explorer for your browser, IE Spell works very well.

Posted by: Jim @ at November 11, 2005 10:56 AM

3 Of course, IE doesn't.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 11, 2005 12:35 PM

4 Paul: Thanks for that link... just downloaded and installed... it works like a champ - even works here in the comment section... although I couldn't find the tool bar button, a control+shift+F7 did the trick!! Thanks again!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 11, 2005 04:43 PM

5 Awesome! Works great. Thanks very much. Now I just need to find one that will fix my grammar errors.

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at November 11, 2005 04:48 PM

6 That would be High School...

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 11, 2005 06:02 PM

7 That was original...

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at November 11, 2005 06:20 PM

8 Madfish: It's not a toolbar button - just right-click inside the textarea you want to spellcheck. It's on the context menu. (Though the keyboard shortcut's a good alternative - me like keyboard shortcuts.)

SR: Glad it worked for you too. As for the grammar thing, well... that's what editors are for.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at November 11, 2005 06:56 PM

9 If you are using Firefox there is a toolbar button. After the installation, if you right click on the toolbar and select customize, then scroll to the bottom of the box, there is a button with ABC and a check mark on it. Drag it to the toolbar and you are good to go.

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at November 11, 2005 07:01 PM

10 I see a button now... it's on the bottom thingy on the left hand side, next to the icon stuff for the rest of the Mozilla Suite apps.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at November 12, 2005 02:36 AM

11 Not to brag or anything but OS X comes with a system wide spell check built in.

But don't worry - as soon as Apple starts selling systems with Intel chips, a version of OS X that runs on a $300 Dell probably isn't far off.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at November 12, 2005 08:06 PM

12 SR, I strongly advise against composing your post in Movable Type. There are weird ways that accidentally hitting a key or two or three on the keyboard will clear everything you've written. It's happened to me several times.

What, specifically, is whacked out about yer posts after copy/pasting them from Word? Just curious.

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at November 13, 2005 12:09 AM

13 Spork,

There's actually quite a few issues. It does not allow for paragraph breaks, it just runs everything together. All of the margins seem to be out of whack when I paste it in to MT. I seem to get weird characters through out the post too.

Usually I use Notepad to write my posts as I am offline (plane or something) and I can save the post then just paste it in to MT. Word would be great because of spel check, but it is just a pain.

Posted by: Sacramento Republicrat @ at November 13, 2005 01:44 AM

14 Yeah, don't use Word. It can be done, but it does too much formatting, and pasting from Word into a web app is asking for trouble.

Notepad or Wordpad should be fine. Or one of the many blogging tools like w.Bloggar.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at November 13, 2005 01:56 AM

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