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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: November 09, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,775,220
- Downloads last week: 9350
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Spelling checkers keep those of us who never won a spelling bee from looking like high-school dropouts. IESpell's spelling checker for Microsoft Internet Explorer provides a safety net for interactive message boards and Web-based e-mail.
We found it unobtrusive, convenient, accurate, and fast. When you want to check your spelling, activate the program from the Tools menu, the toolbar button, or the right-click menu. The intuitive interface resembles that of any other spelling checker, with options for adding words to its dictionary and for ignoring URLs and e-mail addresses. It also provides a direct link to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, giving you the opportunity to expand your vocabulary as you work.
Though we wish IESpell could have fixed punctuation errors and checked our spelling as we typed, we were happy it detected all our misspelled words and offered spelling suggestions. This is a great free tool for the orthographically challenged.
Publisher's description
From Red Egg Software :IESpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell-checks text-input boxes on a Web page. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of Web-based text entry (Web mail, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your Web application already includes spell-checking functionality, this utility is faster than a server-side solution. Plus, you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications instead of having to maintain separate ones on each application.
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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 187 votes
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12 out of 28 people found this review helpful
Version: ieSpell 2.5.1 build 106
""Internet Explorer" users should love this add on!"
Pros: Where "Firefox" and "Netscape Navigator" have built in spell checkers, "Internet Explorer" doesn't. With the other two named browsers, misspelled words are underlined in red making correction easy, this is the only thing I've found that works with "Internet Explorer". Simply pull down the tools menu or right click in a field and it opens showing misspelled words and giving options for correcting them. It's free, compatible with both "XP" and "Vista" as well as other "IE Based" browsers. I find it a useful tool.
Cons: No grammar check and occasionally, I could use it!
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: ieSpell 2.5.1 build 106
Pros: it works sometimes but everytime you need it!
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: ieSpell 2.5.1 build 106
Pros: Easy to use and helpful.
Cons: none
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: ieSpell 2.5.1 build 106
Pros: It works as advertised... and its free.
Has a small footprint on your pc, doesn't mess up your toolbar, and isn't a memory hog.
Works every time.
I couldn't think of how it could be better.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: ieSpell 2.5.1 build 106
"Spell Check.. With Link to Dictionary."
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