Steve Anderson wrote:P.S. In some other thread, possibly a year ago I moaned that there was no spell-checker on this board. Someone suggested composing in Word, spell-checking, then a cut-and-paste into the forum. (I'm a crappy speller). I've recently dumped Microsoft and now run Linux, and as I type this very text it's spell checking all the time. OK, it doesn't like colour as opposed to color, but it can be added to the dictionary. If you have access to a second machine it's worth having a play with Linux, believe me.....wanna good deal on a used car?
Steve, I may have be the person who suggested that rather naive work-around, I have since become aware of the myriad of free spelling plug-ins available for all the major browsers, IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc. These do the job much more conveniently. The only advantage of the former method is that you can use the spell checker of your choice. This post has been spell-checked by an IE plug-in set to U.K. dictionary.
Whilst I have used Linux both professionally and domestically, I still feel that it is so difficult to install, and has so many problems with all but the most common of hardware arrangements that it is still not really an option. HOWEVER! the great pile of doggy doo-doo known as Vista, is definitely pushing me closer to a different conclusion.