If you're scratching your head while watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee and thanking your lucky stars for autocorrect, you're not alone. But before you turn your back on spelling, think about ...

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983. The new features have been tested by ...

Windows currently has a feature where if you mis-spell a word in Word, it will auto-correct it. A quick example would be 'teh', which will auto-correct to 'the'. This spelling auto-correct seems to ...

At the moment, Gmail’s built-in spell check functionality has to be enabled manually and brings users into an editing mode. Google is now rolling out real-time spelling detection that can make ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

Gmail to Auto-Correct Common Spelling Mistakes Gmail will soon auto-correct some spelling mistakes as you type using its AI-powered algorithms and offer up grammar suggestions—for G Suite users at ...

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...

Technology described in a newly published Microsoft Patent application would enable automated spell-checking of text entered by the user in a networked Web browser. The way I read this Patent's ...

Elementary school children may be harmed by overuse of tech tools for spelling. Literacy experts are calling for change and explicit spelling instruction in every classroom.

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