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Ken B
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Ken B asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

How does one disable that annoying spell checker that interrupts when one is answering a question.?

ditto the punctuation bot.

Update:

Sophie B - I do spell correctly - the English spelling.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    This tutorial has been made as per visitors request. A few people asked me how to disable Chrome's built-in spell-checker? So this tutorial will help you in disabling the built-in spell-checker.

    Here is a step-by-step method to disable Chrome spell-checker:

    1. Open Chrome Options:

    2. Go to "Minor Tweaks" tab and click on "Change font and language settings" button.

    3. It'll open a new window. Now go to "Languages" tab.

    NOTE: If you are using the latest Chrome version, you'll see a checkbox "Check spelling". Disable it and you have done. But if you are using an older version (which you should not use and upgrade to latest version immediately), do as following:

    Look at "Spell-checker language" drop-down box at last.

    Now comes the tricky part. You need to select some other language in this drop-down box. e.g. if "English (United States)" is selected in the list, then change it some other language like "Hindi (India)":

    4. It'll show a message to close and restart Chrome to take effect.

    5. Click on OK and OK and then Close buttons and exit from the browser.

    6. Now we have completed half part. The above thing was done to create an entry for Spell-check directory in Chrome "Preferences" file.

    Now we need to edit this entry. Type following string in RUN dialog box and press Enter:

    local settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\

    Now navigate to "User Data\Default" folder. Here you'll see "Preferences" file.

    7. Double-click on "Preferences" file and Windows will ask you to select a program to open this file. Select Notepad and click on OK button.

    8. Now you'll see an entry for "spellcheck" directory in that file:

    9. We need to remove the directory name enclosed between double-quotes. So select the directory name as in our case its hi-IN and delete it.

    10. Make sure to not remove the double-quotes. Now it'll look as following:

    11. That's it. Save the file and restart Chrome. Now it'll not check for spelling mistakes and the built-in spell-checker will be disabled:

    NOTE: You might be thinking why to follow steps 1-5? Can't we directly edit or paste those 3 lines of spellcheck directory in "Preferences" file? Actually I tried it, I pasted those 3 lines in "Preferences" file and started Chrome browser but to my surprise, it didn't disable the spell-checker and when I opened the "Preferences" file again, the spellcheck lines were not present in the file, also all my custom settings were removed. So its better to allow Chrome to add those lines automatically by using steps 1-5You cant but here are 2 solutions for you:

    WORK-AROUND to the Yahoo Answers Spelling Spellchecker:

    1.

    (basicly a cut and paste from a program that doesnt check anything that you type)

    Open "Microsoft Wordpad"

    (start...all programs....accesories....Wordpad)

    Write your stuff in there. When you are done:

    "Edit"...."Select All"

    "Edit"...."Copy"

    Go to Yahoo Answers and click where you want the text to be

    Edit....Paste

    2.

    Also might help:

    If you have your screen "maximized",

    you can do the "Restore down" button (top right corner, the middle button)

    then move the screen over to the right (by click @ drag),

    then you dont see it. You might have to resize window of screen.

    but this also works like a charm.

    This saves me lots of grief.

    Good luck!

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Chrome Disable Spell Check

  • 4 years ago

    sure i understand the place you're coming from even however right here is the style you take care of this spell examine the subsequent time it comes up click on the x on the precise of the nook this disables it an identical for the be particular field the hmmmm did you leave the caps on field

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There is no way except hitting the little X in the right hand corner of the pop up, so all you have is your answer.

  • 1 decade ago

    learn to spell correctly, and you won't need to worry....

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