Spell check is a great and necessary feature for all of us who are either not very good at spelling or not good at typing without typos. But what if the application that you are working on, does not have spellcheck. Of course, you could copy the typed text to another application which has spellcheck feature and check the spellings.

But there is an easier way.

Just download TinySpell. As the name suggests, it is a tiny application that runs on your system tray. Now whenever you are typing in any application, TinySpell watches your spelling on the fly and whenever it detects a misspelled word, it alerts you with a beep as well as shows a spelling tip. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard.

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TinySpell is available in two versions, one a paid version and the other totally free. The free version should be good enough for most of us. But if you want some added features you could go for the paid version.

TinySpell can either be installed or you could use the portable version than can be run even from a pen drive.

Download TinySpell

In response to my earlier post on Suresh Addin, I have received several emails and comments asking for how to install the addin in Excel 2007/2010. The original post only had instructions on how to install the addin in earlier versions of Excel.

So here I describe how to add the Suresh Addin, or for that matter any Excel Addin in the newer versions.

As I only have Office 2010 installed on my computer, I will be using screenshots from that but if I remember right, the process is almost exactly the same in Excel 2007 too.

1. Start up Excel and click on File > Options.

excel-2010-options

2. In the options window, click on Add-Ins.

3. In the Add-ins options, right at the bottom, you will find the Manage option. Make sure that ‘Excel Add-ins’ is selected in the drop-down box and click on the Go button.

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4. The Add-Ins window that appears is the same as in the older versions of Excel. Click on the Browse button and select the Addin you want to add and click Ok.

excel-2010-select-addins

You can now start using the Addin in your Worksheets.

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