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A decision by the Oregon Department of Education to let students use a computer spell-check feature when taking an online version of the state’s writing exam this year has raised some concerns among ...

Like many, I was not pleased to read that Oregon students in 7th-grade and high school will be allowed to use spell check on their computers for more than single-word checks on state exams. At the end ...

When you misspell a word in Microsoft's Office 365 Web Apps, the app relies entirely on your browser's spell check feature to correct it. On a computer running the Windows 8 operating system, however, ...

Do you have to be good at spelling to be a good writer? Not necessarily, at least not in Oregon public schools. As middle and high school kids begin taking state writing tests next month, they'll have ...

Get more out of the spell-checker built into Firefox and add spell-checking to Internet Explorer via the free IE7Pro add-on. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

You can configure Microsoft Office Outlook to handle multiple email services and accounts, such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail; sending emails is a trivial task and the program even helps you catch spelling ...

August 12, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Firefox only: Firefox has long had a handy built-in spell checker, great for proofreading emails, blog posts, ...