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spell checker
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A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly.

Spell checkers simply compare words to a dictionary of words, and the wrong use of a correctly spelled word cannot be detected. See grammar checker.
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The quoted opinion of a professor on this Pittsburgh study highlights this often-overlooked behavioral aspect: "Dennis Galleta, a professor of information systems at the Katz Business School, said spell-checking software is so sophisticated that some have come to trust it thoroughly.
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His comparisons are more precious than precocious ("I didn't know about / the spell-checking thing / inside the computer.
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Install minimal program options and disable unnecessary overhead, such as animated "help" characters, automatic formatting and automatic spell-checking, and auto-save (don't forget to save manually).
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