~terry
Fri, Aug 9, 1996 (20:35)
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Spell Check -- This is a spelling checker pre-configured to work
with American Online and other commercial services as well as
quite a few 'net apps (Free Agent, Netscape, Eudora Light, and the
Trumpet Newsreader) and Windows apps (Notepad 3.x and 95,
clipboard, and Wordpad 95). The good news is that it can also be
configured to work with most internet clients; the bad news is that
involves modifying a cryptic .ini file. Spell Check already works
with common Windows 3.x clients like Notepad and Write and also
for some Windows 95 clients like the revised Notepad and
WordPad clients. It functions as an external program that places a
copy of the information to be checked in its buffer, checks and
corrects errors based on your input, and then places the new copy
back into the original client. As you can imagine, this results in
slightly slower checks compared to Spell Checker for Edit Boxes
(see the above description).
Pros: Can be configured to work with many winsock applications
Cons: Cryptic, difficult .ini file for configuring new clients, slightly
slow
New: Windows 95 support; now pre-configured for Compuserve
Mosaic, Netscape, and more
Version Reviewed: 3.3
Date of Review: 3/23/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud
~MarciaH
Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:17)
#1
I have AutoSpell and when you purchase the program you can put it on wordpad, aol, eudora, and just about everything else on your PC other than browsers.
~MarciaH
Sat, Mar 18, 2000 (19:41)
#2
Pros: It was the only one I knew about and Son recommended it as the one he used.
Cons: Cost= $34.95 for all apps on your pc including Eudora, aol, wordpad and Word; Vocabulary is weak so you end up adding just about everything to your custom dictionary. I am currently having problems having it find the correct dictionary to use on apps because of interface with using it on Word is so bad that it gets lost and you have to rebuild the entire custom dictionary.