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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unbelievable: no spell-check, Microsoft? Really?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:43:50 -0400
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On 7/15/2024 1:46 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-07-15 10:27, Tom Elam wrote:
>> On 7/10/2024 1:26 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2024-07-10 07:45, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>> On 7/9/2024 4:28 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>> 'Spellcheck in Notepad begins rolling out to Windows Insiders
>>>>> Written By Dave Grochocki
>>>>> published March 21, 2024
>>>>>
>>>>> UPDATE 4/9: The below update for Notepad (version 11.2402.22.0) 
>>>>> that introduces spellcheck has begun rolling out to Windows 
>>>>> Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview Channels.'
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/03/21/spellcheck-in-notepad-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/>
>>>>>
>>>>> macOS has had system-wide spell checking since 2009.
>>>>
>>>> Windows 10 has spell check, as does Windows 11. In Windows 11 it's 
>>>> Settings/Time and Language/Typing. It works in Notepad. Not sure why 
>>>> Notepad needs its own.
>>>
>>> You can't imagine when an app to take notes...
>>>
>>> ...in ENGLISH (or whatever language the user requires)...
>>>
>>> ...would need a spell chacker.
>>>
>>> The whole point is that to date, Notepad hasn't been able to USE the 
>>> system wide spellchecker, Liarboy.
>>
>> In my defense I don't think I ever used Notepad to create a document. 
>> I did use Wordpad a few times and it did spellcheck. I also used 
>> Notepad to view text documents and never needed spellcheck for those.
>>
>> BTW, what's a spell chacker? (I note that chacker is a spelling error 
>> caught by the MS system-wide spellcheck and highlighted in 
>> Thunderbird. Did your beloved Mac not catch that? LOL at you Liarboy)
>>
> 
> Actually it DID catch "chacker".
> 
> I failed to catch that it had caught it.

Liar