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I am a bad speller. I try to use spell check when ever I can. Something I would like to see is a spell checker that also considers the next word in the sentence before giving the list of suggestions. Here is the scenario I run into all the time...I mistype something like:
Dear Madonna, Please do
not taket his the wrong way, but I am already married.
I misplaced the space between 'take' and 'this'. The spell checker will flag 'taket' but it will not flag 'his' as being wrong. Since the pop-up window does not give me the option to manually correct any word other than the one in question, I have to shut down the checker and make the correction and restart the checking.
I would like to have th option in the resulting pop-up to include, with a click of a button, the next or previous word and re-offer the correction list. Thus including two words and at least allowing me to move the space without having to stop the checker.
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Shouldn't be too difficult, and it sounds like it'd be a useful addition. Just have two or three words ahead and behind the offending word when the window appears... |
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I couldd definatel yuse thiss pellcheck. I fin dmyself always makin gmistakes. |
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My version of Word underlines "his" in the above example as a grammatical error, so I would be inclined to fix this, too. |
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Excellents ugestion. Or is it an excellen tidea? Of course, the really embarassing goofs are still going to get through because they'll make too much sense. |
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MS Word has had something a bit like this for a while. The spellchecker displays the text around an offending word (about a sentence worth on either side), and you have the option either to change the word, or to edit the text in the box manually. |
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Reminds me, by the way, of a friend of mine who, thanks to spellcheck, used the word "doeskin" a dozen times in one paper when he meant "during..." |
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Il ov eit. bigp uffy pastr yfory ou. |
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