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    Spell checking - how to turn it off?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Mr. Anderson, Aug 19, 2007.

  1. Mr. Anderson

    Mr. Anderson Notebook Consultant

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    Just got my new Inspiron 1721 on Friday, and I'm having fun getting adjusted to Vista, but I've got one question...

    How do I turn off that annoying-as-sin spell checker that is putting a red dotted line under everything I type? And it's not just things I misspell, because I don't misspell that often, it's under everything else like names and what not. Where do I go to turn this feature off? It's making me crazy!
     
    Mr. Anderson, Aug 19, 2007
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  2. chuck232

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    In what application? Word?
     
    chuck232, Aug 19, 2007
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    Why would you need to remove it? Hate being corrected on stupidity?

    Just kidding, though for me personally, it's not that annoying. It's actually a nice little feature.
     
    yrneh12, Aug 19, 2007
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  4. l0x

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    I have no clue man. I have been tolerating with it for about a month. I would like to know the answer to. Even though I do misspell.
     
    l0x, Aug 19, 2007
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  5. chuck232

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    Oh, perhaps you'd talking about the built in spell checker in Firefox 2? If so:

    1. Type about:config in the address bar.

    2. In the filter field type spell

    3. Find the entry for layout.spellcheckDefault and double-click it.

    4. Set the integer to 1 to enable the spell checker.
    Set the integer to 0 to disable the spell checker.
     
    chuck232, Aug 19, 2007
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  6. DoubleBlack

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    What are you talking about?!?
     
    DoubleBlack, Aug 20, 2007
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  7. Mr. Anderson

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    Talking about exactly what I posted, smart guy.
     
    Mr. Anderson, Aug 20, 2007
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    Smart guy, Vista doesn't have spell checking...only applications do, so we need to know what you are talking about, because this has nothing to do with Vista ;)
     
    DoubleBlack, Aug 20, 2007
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  9. Mr. Anderson

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    Ok, ok... lol

    It's doing it to me in Trillian and in Firefox, but chuck's tutorial for shutting it off in Firefox worked. I can probably figure out Trillian.

    *EDIT* N/M, I got it.
     
    Mr. Anderson, Aug 20, 2007
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