Windows Editor now for everyone with spelling correction

Microsoft is now enabling spell checking in the Windows Editor for everyone. With a recently distributed configuration update for Windows, the editor now appears to run with this useful function.

In the menu bar of the editor, also known as Notepad, a cogwheel icon now appears in the top right-hand corner, which can be used to access the settings.

In the settings, you can set the file types in which the spell checker should be active. In addition, some of the findings can also be corrected automatically if the "Autocorrect" setting is active.

The spell checker works as you would expect: if it detects an incorrect word, it underlines it in red. If there are clear alternatives, autocorrect can correct errors directly. This happened in the test with misspelled words, for example.

Right-clicking on an error opens a context menu. There, the editor now suggests correct spellings for the recognized word or offers the option to expand the dictionary or to ignore findings.

The standard Windows text editing tool supplied has become a little more useful again with the spell checker. Microsoft is increasingly equipping the on-board tools with new, practical functions. For example, support for tabs in the editor was added last year. This means that several open files are clearly arranged next to each other in one program window and do not lead to several open program instances, which can quickly become confusing.

In March, Microsoft had already distributed the spell checker and autocorrect for the Windows Editor to the participants of the Windows Insider previews. Apparently, the feedback was positive, so Microsoft was able to make the function generally available.

(dmk)