Word, spell check and spacing - SpellBound Spell Check for Firefox and Mozilla

[Caster]

Forgive me if this has been answered 100 times before and just point me there.

I try to compose messages in Word in order to use spell check.

When I paste the message, I get lots of extra spaces and it looks bad. I end up editing to remove most of the spaces.

What do people use for a message editor?

Is there a spell check feature that I just haven't found?

[Wes Bucey]

Some of us think we are so cool we can get by with hard-typing our answers directly without a text editor. For me,this results in frequent editing when I notice typos later - worse, when someone else notices typos later.

If you feel the need to compose and edit in a text editor or word processing program (Word, WordPerfect, or any other) to help catch spelling errors and some grammar errors, you can eliminate the subsequent mismatch of spacing by adding an intermediate step of converting to plain text or ASCII BEFORE cutting and pasting into the reply box. Once the text is in the reply box, you can add formatting of text style, size, color, etc. by using the Cove tools. If you are in a Windows environment, you could also use Notepad as the intermediary program before cutting and pasting into the Cove.

[Marc]

Although Spell Check has practically been demanded by vBulleting customers (including me) for several years, they have never put one in and even today they say there is nothing they can put in which will spell check in advanced WYSIWYG mode because of the hidden codes, etc.

One 'key' to editing and spell checking in Word or other text editor is making sure you have 'Turn Invisibles On' in whatever you use so you can see tab, space and carrage returns 'icons'.

Actually, although I used to, I never use a text editor any more because the forum software has been very stable. For spelling, I use the Firefox 'extension'.

I have looked at a spell checker as a forum software 'hack' but none I have seen so far will work with the 'advanced' WYSIWYG editor because of all the bbcodes which you can't see if you're using the 'advanced' WYSIWYG editor.

I don't use the 'advanced' WYSIWYG editor, personally.

Now and again I make one or more typos. I usually fix them when I see them but I'm not loosing sleep over a typo now and again.

[Al Rosen]

Originally Posted by Marc

Actually, although I used to, I never use a text editor any more because the forum software has been very stable. For spelling, I use the Firefox 'extension'.

Which extension? I looked on the website, but didn't see one for spelling or grammar.

[Marc]

See post 47 in this thread: Browsers: Anyone using Firefox?

I was looking as well - It's at: SpellBound - Firefox and Mozilla Suite Spell Checker

[Al Rosen]

Originally Posted by Marc

See post 47 in this thread: Browsers: Anyone using Firefox?

I was looking as well - It's at: SpellBound - Firefox and Mozilla Suite Spell Checker

Thanks Marc, I got it.

[Howard Atkins]

It is great but I need to remeber(sic) to use it.
After the discussions here I moved to Fire fox and am very happy

(This is the smiley extension)

[Marc]

Just remember when you use the 'smiley extension' it embeds a call to an outside server for the image, so if that server goes down or otherwise doesn't load quickly it can hold up display of the page.