Hi! It's technophobe here. My Windows XP does not have spell check or thesaurus. How can I rectify this.?

Question

Need it for when I'm doing documents. Your help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Free spell checker at: http://www.iespell.com/

Another site is YourDictionary.com. It is free, and it includes a translator, along with a thesaurus, grammatical aids, etc. http://www.yourdictionary.com/

For the computer user that does not need all of Microsoft Word’s features, try Jarte 2.6 from Carolina Road. This is free word processing software made easy-- for basic, everyday stuff--like writing letters. Jarte 2.6 works on machines using Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP.

Jarte is a smaller, compact word processing program than MS Word. The icons are large and colorful, so you can compose a letter in a few clicks.

Jarte also edits Word document, and you still get a spell checker and formatting tools,
http://www.jarte.com/download.html

Answer 2

Download OpenOffice.org - It has all that built-in.

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database components. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems with the X Window System including GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. It is intended to be a compatible, free alternative to Microsoft Office. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange.

OpenOffice.org is based on the codebase of StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision (acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999). The source code of the suite was released as an open source project in July 2000 with the aim of breaking the market dominance of Microsoft Office by providing a lower-cost, high-quality, and open alternative. The source code for the application is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

You can also use the Wikimedia resources for looking up information...

Answer 3

windows XP wont have spell check you need to get a word prossecor like microsoft words (this is expensive usally over £100 unless you get a old one which isent as good) or get microsoft works which is about £20-£30 both have a good spell and grammer check as well as a thesaurus

Answer 4

IOnstall Microsoft Word. It is a cheap program and gives you all you need. I copy, print and fax from it as well as write letters and documents. The first long answer is correct of course, but I think you would like Word better and it can be purchased separate from Office cheaply.

Answer 5

The Microsoft spellcheck engine is included in applications such as MSWord.
There are free word processors like Jarte that have spellcheck
- http://www.jarte.com/features.html
Open Office
- http://www.filehippo.com/download_openoffice/
AbiWord
- http://www.filehippo.com/download_abiword/

You could use an online spellchecker
- http://www.spellcheck.net/

Or an online wordprocessor
Zohowriter
- http://www.zohowriter.com/login.sas
Writely (get on the waiting list now!)
- http://www.writely.com/
gOffice
- http://www.goffice.com/

If you want to add spellcheck to Internet Explorer
- http://www.iespell.com/

A good free dictionary and thesaurus is The Sage
- http://www.sequencepublishing.com/

Answer 6

Install it using a microsoft office xp disk.

Answer 7

spell check and thesaurus normally come with a word processing package.

Answer 8

install with an office XP in stallation disk

Answer 9

coral word perfect 12 has both but is costly
unless you find an oem edition
i find this is as good as mso

Answer 10

reinstall your MS Office.

Good luck!!!!!