Word Identification and Corrective Actions Menu

No spellchecking experience would be complete without the red squiggles you’re familiar with from your favorite Office programs.
By default, as you enter text into any HTML textarea element (a multi-line input box) or any region of editable HTML content, the spellchecking engine will be used to check the last entered word. The word is checked against a dictionary associated with the current keyboard input language. If that word is misspelled or repeated it will be identified as a potential error using the familiar red squiggly underline. The identification of potential misspelled or repeated words is done in the background so that it does not slow your text entry.

The corrective actions menu has suggested alternate words and options to add the misspelled word to your custom dictionary or ignore the word. This works across all supported languages, including Portuguese (shown here).

The corrective actions menu will offer the most likely replacements for the identified word. You can replace the identified word with the suggested word in one step by selecting it from this menu. In addition you may choose to:

• Add to dictionary. Your Windows user account has a built-in custom dictionary (which is initially empty). You may add frequently used words to this dictionary (in my case, I always need to add my last name). In Windows 8 this custom dictionary will be roamed to any other Windows 8 machine that you use via the cloud.
• Ignore. The word will no longer be identified as a potentially misspelled word on this page. After you navigate away from the current page, the list of ignored words is cleared, and will again be flagged as a potential error.