For many millions of students and professionals, Microsoft Word's red squiggly underlines for spelling mistakes are essentially an icon of modern computing. Well, those squigglies aren't going ...

Microsoft Word's spell check has come a long way from when a googly-eyed paper clip unfailingly assumed you were writing a letter. Now it accurately spots grammatical mistakes, autocorrects misspelled ...

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Hello. I apologize for asking a such an application-specific question in this general forum, but I am desperate. In Microsoft Word, under Windows 7, I'm finding that the "Ignore" and the "Ignore All" ...

Microsoft Notepad isn't considered among the top text editor programs, but it's certainly one of the oldest and most widely installed. Microsoft first introduced Notepad in May 1983, presenting it as ...

Since the early days of Microsoft, Notepad has been known to be part of what Windows offers users, but it is only now that it has been upgraded to include new features to enjoy. Windows 11 users may ...

Fantasy stories are fun, but trying to write about them is tricky — tis a rare fantasy novel that uses conventional spellings, and the end result is two things: a lot of head scratching and Web ...

UPDATE 7/8: Microsoft is now fully rolling out spell-check and autocorrect to all Windows 11 Notepad app users. The spell-check feature is similar to Microsoft Word's spell-check, which underlines ...

Microsoft has quietly introduced spellcheck and autocorrect features to the Notepad app in Windows 11, marking a notable upgrade for the text editor that first appeared in Windows in 1983. This ...

It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983. For the history buffs, Ronald Reagan was still president ...

For many millions of students and professionals, Microsoft Word's red squiggly underlines for spelling mistakes are essentially an icon of modern computing. Well, those squigglies aren't going ...