Dear Digulla,
Thank you for your inquiry.
I am just a bit confused by the phrasing of your question in that you seem to
already have MS Office XP so you already have a spelling and grammar tools in
MS Word.
If you would like to extend the capabilities of MS Word there are several 3rd
party developers to meet your needs.
==MS Office Extensions and Windows based spellcheckers.
Most of the software listed here is shareware so caveat emptor.
AutoSpell
http://www.spellchecker.com/personal/
Supported OS: Win ME, Win 98, Win 95, Win 2000, Win NT
Supported Applications: MS Word, MS Excel, MS FrontPage, MS Outlook, MS Works,
MS Outlook Express
Price: $49.95/ED $55.00/CD.
Not a shareware product. Extend the spell-checking capabilities of Microsoft
Office without the need for purchasing separate dictionaries. With AutoSpell
for Microsoft Office, you can add full-featured, high-quality spell checking
that supports multiple languages at a low cost. It integrates so well with your
Microsoft Office applications that you won't even know it's running. Supports
spell checking in 12 languages, plus internet terms, custom dictionaries and
more. Works with Word, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, Works, Outlook Express, Mail
and News, Exchange, and Windows Messaging.
Download.com
http://download.com.com/3120-2001-0-1-3.html?qt=spellchecker&ca=2001
Here is the top 4 user rated spellcheckers from Download.com.
SpellCheckAnywhere 2.0
User rating: 100% of 6 votes
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
File Size: 3.38MB
Cost; $19.97
From the developer: "Adds a spell-checker to almost any Windows program. Spell-
checks in Internet Explorer, Netscape, Notepad, Outlook and almost anywhere
else in Windows. Simply press F11 on your keyboard to spell-check. Just make
sure the cursor is inside a text-area with text to spell check and press F11.
Works in almost all Windows programs."
Spell Magic 3.03
User rating: 84% of 19 votes
OS: Windows 95/98/NT
File Size: 909K
Cost: $19.95.
From the developer: "Spelling checker, configurable, fast, intuitive, powerful
and centralized (14 languages and Medical) assists your writing and editing
efforts. Use one system wide on-the-fly spell check. Fully documented, resides
in the WIN95/98/NT System Tray, a simple Hotkey analyzes any word, paragraph,
or document from any application, email program, text/HTML editor, database."
Polar SpellChecker ActiveX 2.0
User rating: 58% of 12 votes
OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
File Size: 1.81MB
Cost: $99
Polar SpellChecker is a 32-bit ActiveX (OCX) control that integrates spell-
checking and autocorrect features into your applications. It includes
dictionaries for nine languages (available at the developer's site) and an
autocorrect dialog box with a customizable list of exceptions and
abbreviations, and suggests alternatives for misspelled words. This version
displays a warning dialog every 30 minutes.
WSpell ActiveX Spelling Checker 5.8
User rating: CNET Pick; no user rating
OS: Windows 95/98/NT
File Size: 1.28MB
Cost: $169
From the developer: WSpell is an ActiveX control (OCX) you can use to add spell-
check capability to your applications. Spell-check text boxes on a form, and
text strings, using either the built-in spell-check dialog or your own user
interface. WSpell comes with professional-quality 100,000-word American and
British English dictionaries, and you can use any of Wintertree Software's
available dictionaries for other languages or for medical and legal terms.
WSpell supports multiple-user dictionaries and can use dictionaries from other
applications, including Word.
ProgramFiles.com – Spellcheckers
http://www.programfiles.com/index.asp?menu2=29
Most of these are for Windows OS
This site lists several shareware types of applications. Two that may be of
interest to you are Speller for Microsoft Office and Grammar Expert Plus.
Speller for Microsoft Office 1.8
http://www.programfiles.com/index.asp?ID=14134
Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Shareware ($14.95)
“While Office is shipped with a spellchecker that supports the U.S. (American)
English and U.K. (British) English languages, if you need spellcheckers for
additional languages, you need to purchase them separately. Speller for
Microsoft Office allows you to spellcheck in 12 languages all with one
spellchecker!
With Speller for Microsoft Office, you can have a quality spellchecker that
supports multiple languages at a low cost. It integrates so well with your
Microsoft applications that you won't know it's running.
Features :
- Includes dictionaries for 12 languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Danish,
Dutch, English (American, U.S.), English (British, U.K.), Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmal, Spanish, and Swedish.
Grammar Expert Plus
http://www.programfiles.com/index.asp?ID=3994
Platform: Windows 95/98
US$59.95 CDN$89.00
“Grammar Expert Plus can check text you have typed, text and rich-text
documents, and the Windows clipboard. You can install Grammar Expert Plus as an
icon in the system tray, next to the clock on the task bar, where it is always
accessible. Grammar Expert Plus is ideal for checking text you enter in other
applications that lack grammar and spelling checkers. “
SpellCheck
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/8s3/spellche.htm
Supported Platforms: Win 31., WIN95
Authors Name: Next Generation Software, Inc.
Version: 3.8
Price: $9
Installed Size: 1.47MB
This functional little programme checks your spelling, in any document you are
working on such as a plain text, a mail, or a page of HTML. Launch it, and
leave it minimised as you work on your text. Then right click on the SpellCheck
icon, and tell it to check the document in the current window. And it does. It
suggests words to replace misspellings, and it allows you to add to the custom
dictionary, so that eventually you will build up a spellchecker that has a full
dictionary for your kind of work, even with a technical vocabulary. Once the
spell check is done, it quietly puts itself away again on the task bar, and you
can carry on typing.
==Linux/Unix Spellcheckers
In case you use a text editor that does not currently have spelling or grammar
tools or you are trying to become a Unix purist, here are a few that may be of
interest to you. Caveat Emptor. These are GNU or shareware and thus, may not
be the most reliable, stable, bug proof, etc.
Aspell
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
“Aspell is an Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell.
Its main feature is that it does a superior job of coming up than just about
any other spell checker out there for the English language. “ As of March 2002,
Kevin Atkinson will no longer continue maintaining the Aspell code.
TeraSpell for Emacs
http://www.firstlinux.com/product/Editors/101.shtml
“Providing the technically most advanced spelling correction system available
on the market. Fully featured superior correction, tremendous coverage, amazing
speed, and wide support... complete with on-the-fly spell checking!” from a
review by the editors of firstlinux.com
The WordManager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wordmanager/
“A program that you can use for almost anything dealing with writing (except
for the editor). Dictionary, spellchecking, thesaurus, validation. It will use
current free tools and Internet resources.” This is another download from
sourceforge.net.
==On the Web
Spellcheck.net
http://www.spellcheck.net/
This is free but there is a 5000-character limit.
I hope at least a few of these resources are what you were looking for. |
