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Wordpad Spellcheck

Submitted by loopyoyo on November 3, 2008 to Usability

Wordpad desperatly needs a spell check...woth todays im's/phone texting and what not...the fate of the gramatically correct world rests on proper spelling. The world might literally go to shambles if this feature isnt implemented into Windows Seven. Could you microsoft take a look and see what your could do? Were not asking you to include a whole Office suite into the new version, just a little feature that will make everyone's day much more enjoyable

I think your guys proably know how to code this into wordpad so i dont need to go into further detail.

P.S. and when your done with that can you shoot around the possibility of maybe a spell check for ie8 also?

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Discussion (13 comments)

hoopla_punta wrote on November 3, 2008, 3:35am

Perhaps system wide?

loopyoyo wrote on November 3, 2008, 3:36am

that might take alot of coding and time..and since were already this far in and way ahead of schedule i dont think the redmond boys would want to take that kind of risk

.Chris wrote on November 3, 2008, 3:45am

I fell they should bring back microsoft works and just add that in windows 7, with the ribbion UI and what not. You get a basic word processing app, and if you need more you can upgrade to office

loopyoyo wrote on November 3, 2008, 3:50am

@chris: that would be pretty awesome too...you should submit a suggestion on that one

mdta wrote on November 3, 2008, 7:57pm

Windows 7 should have a system wide integrated spell check which all TextEdit boxes and RichEdit boxes tie into. It can use the system wide language setting for its default dictionary.

larsendaniel wrote on November 6, 2008, 9:48pm

@mdta and @hoopla_punta:
That would be sweet!

tino wrote on November 9, 2008, 6:54am

Vote for a system wide spellcheck. Maybe it can be implemented into the Accelerators For Windows feature?

lime1015 wrote on November 14, 2008, 2:11pm

IE8 beta 2 is considered as feature-complete, that's mean no spell check

bdodson wrote on January 26, 2009, 1:29pm

ie8 makes some sense, but no way is wordpad going to get spell check. That's what Word is for (actually I find that Wordpad is a rather useless application - notepad is great and lightweight for plaintext, and Word is better for actual documents).

litemininyuszika wrote on January 31, 2009, 9:31am

+1!
I need a +infinity button for this!

However, it's important to have an option to turn off spell checking (and remember it until I turn it on back), and have all language spell checking in all language versions of Windows (maybe an option to install other languages), because I often write in English also - for example, there. :)

ChrisK15 wrote on March 3, 2009, 5:59am

Looks like the guy who posted this desperately needs spellcheck too. :P

epobirs wrote on March 17, 2010, 6:24am

Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping Office's value intact. This means no spell check without Office. If Office is installed, any app can have spell check. The API is very well documented. ieSpell is a free app that will add spell check to Internet Explorer and may be sufficient for many people's needs.

xpclient wrote on August 27, 2010, 3:02pm

Or just use Office Starter 2010 which doesn't require any product key. You can get it from the Office 2010 OPK. As long as Microsoft's vested interest in keeping WordPad crippled exists, this won't be "fixed" by Microsoft.

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