Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad! After WordPad was killed last year, ...

A linguistic difference could give the impression that the spell checker isn’t functioning properly. You might want to double-check what language Outlook is set to since it uses MS Word for writing.

Remember, though: a spell-checker only looks for correct spellings, so you also need to make sure you’re using the word you mean to. Speaker 1: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) I actually want that to say 'you ...