Wordpad and Notepad are two windows editor which comes without any spell checker. Till now there had been no application ever attempted to add one to them. These two editors might not be very popular but comes very hand when you need to do a quick copy paste without opening any other heavy application. So the point is, How do I add a spell checker. No magic but a small but handy software called as Tiny Spell which integrates spell checking to virtually any word processor. It also works in Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Let’s figure out how to add free Spell checker to Wordpad Notepad
Add free Spell checker to Wordpad Notepad or anything you can type on
Virtually It does a spell check anywhere you can type on your computer.
- Wordpad and Notepad
- Pain or Photoshop Application
- When you save a file with a new name
- Check spell when you chat
- Even when I am typing here.
Once you install it, it will sit in the system tray and monitor. There are two ways it can check spelling mistake for you.
1] Notification in the system tray
While you are typing, tinySpell watches the text you enter and whenever it detects a misspelled word it beeps and shows a spelling tip, and the tinySpell taskbar icon turns from white to yellow.
2] Clipboard Monitoring
When you copy text to the clipboard tinySpell checks its spelling immediately. If it finds at least one misspelled word in the text, it beeps and turns its icon to yellow.
How it corrects spelling
When a misspelled word is detected, click the tinySpell taskbar icon or press the hot-key to pop up a list of suggested replacement words. If the misspelled word is detected during on-the-fly checking or after a word is copied to the clipboard, you can select a correction from the list. The selected word is inserted into your document or is copied to the clipboard (so you can paste it in your document), or both (depending on your settings).
Features of TinySpell
- Checks spelling in any Windows application, on-the-fly, or ext that is copied to the clipboard
- Specify applications for which tinySpell is disabled or enabled
- Add words to the dictionary
- Beeps on error
- Displays a spelling tip
- It Opens replacements list with a simple mouse click or a hot-key
- Can copy the selected replacement word to the clipboard
- Optionally inserts the selected replacement word into the document
Here are a few examples of how this spell checker works on different applications:
1] Spell Checker in WordPad
2] Spell Checker Yahoo Chat
3] Spell Checker in Adobe
Download from Official Website.
Just have to say I love this small utility. Another tool to reduce the misspelling is TypingAssistant.
Yahoo! Just what i needed!
And Excellent little program; once you’ve learnt how it works(which is very easy). Just right click the icon in the system tray and select “open spelling window” and it shows the correct word as you type. It’s great!! It’s definitely one to tell your friends about.
Thanks Very Much
Glad to find one for Windows. My Mac at work has spell-check built into Text Edit. Sometimes little things DO make a difference.
Hello,
Do you know if it’s possible to add Spellcheck to Notepad++ on Windows 8 ?
Thanks.
Its already there and does not depend on Windows 8. On Notepad++, Go to Plugins > Spell Checker > How to use. It will direct you on installing GNUS Aspell which will solve your problem.
Hi,
Is there a program that can be used to copy MS Word to Notepad/Notepad++?
At my job I have to do a lot of technical writing where I have to work in word because it has the option for adding short cuts to words so if I type ITAA it types out IT Administrator. The problem is that the software we have “upgraded” to has a problem with the formatting from MS Word. I have disabled and stripped all formatting from word documents, but nothing works.
The only thing that works is to copy the entire document into Text Pad, then copy that again into the publisher, very time consuming.
Anyone has a solution that would be awesome!
Are you looking for an automated solution ?
I have Windows10 and on Windows 8.1 had spell check on Word!
Good grief. I read thru thhe entire list of comments, yet nowhere did I find insrructionns on how to add spell check to Word Pad. What a waste.
TinySpell installs itself in the taskbar notification area for easy access.
While you are typing, tinySpell watches the text you enter and whenever it detects a misspelled word it beeps and shows a spelling tip. Also the tinySpell taskbar icon turns from white to yellow.