Safari and Spell Check

This is a fairly obvious tip, but I’ll post it anyway. I use Apple’s Safari web browser for most of my web browsing needs these days. I also spend a lot of time writing into web based forms, blogs, and web based email. One of the great things about Safari is that is has a built in spell checker, and can do spell checking as you type if you configure it that way. That is very handy for a guy like me.

If you are using Mac OS X Panther, you can turn on Safari’s spell check features by going to the Edit menu and pulling it down to Spelling. You’ll see a check box for turning on spelling as you type.

Happy spell check everyone!

–Pete

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» egg said: { Dec 22, 2004 - 04:12:34 }

thanks for the great tip. but i cant select those. they are grayed out and unselectable? how do i do it?

and how do you make the correct version appear?

thanks

» Pete Markham said: { Dec 23, 2004 - 11:12:24 }

The spelling menus will be grayed out unless you put your cursor in a box that you can type text in. When it underlines a misspelled word, you can do an option-click on it the misspelled word and get choices as to what it thinks the word might be.

» Christie said: { Dec 28, 2004 - 11:12:27 }

Can you do this in Firefox? Am switching over and had seen this post and don’t see the option in Firefox so am guessing it’s not available!

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