# No Spell Checker?
**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336
**Category:** General
**Created:** [September 9, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336 "2019-09-09T15:22:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@tony789](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/tony789)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/41 "2020-06-12T23:48:14Z")
š Similarly from PGās āPreview in browserā, I sometimes copy and paste text into a āNewā email for a quick spell check.
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### Author:  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2020, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/42 "2020-06-13T08:00:50Z")
I use the Spell Right extension on Visual Studio Code. Most of the time I use VS alongside PG.
PG integrations with VS works and it allows you to use some great VS extension, so I never felt the need to a spell checker within PG.
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### Author:  [@lonnie](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/lonnie)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/43 "2020-06-29T16:04:56Z")
Come on. They forgot to add it. If they did not have a Gui design view and made us use a browser preview after making changes we would NOT use it, would we?
So, all of this talk of using another App to spell check after we make changes is just making excuses.
I am very impressed with Pinegrow and it shows they have some code wizards working on the code. The problem is they have not been tasked with a spell checker. Even this Forums has spell check on the post you are creating.
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### Author:  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/44 "2020-06-29T23:11:58Z")
i have that extension, but iāve never seen it spell check anything in an html file like your screen shot aboveā¦ is there some command or setting i need to use in order to get it to work?
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### Author:  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/45 "2020-06-29T23:15:19Z")
i think the point is, the content has to come from somewhereā¦ and for me at least, i nee to work on the content separately from working on the html/css because itās distracting too take all that into acct at the same time. Plus, iām a terrible speller anyway.
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### Author:  [@mxs](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/mxs)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/46 "2020-07-01T09:52:16Z")
All my text goes through Grammarly before posting for a spell & grammar check.
All very well using a spell checker but if the text reads badly it suggests the writer has little authority.
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### Author:  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/47 "2020-07-04T07:37:02Z")
No particular setup. Just the latest version of the plugin. Works ok for me. Does the job.
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### Author:  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/48 "2020-07-04T17:12:27Z")
well iām clearly doing something wrongā¦ it doesnāt even work on a .txt file.
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### Author:  [@oli123](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/oli123)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/49 "2022-02-01T11:25:23Z")
Yes spell checking is a major issue for writers In that case, being a research paper writer I am using grammarly extension for my writing purpose and it is really a greater support in spelling correction and also for grammar checking.
Note: This post has been edited to remove external links to a commercial sites.
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### Author:  [@oleteacher](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/oleteacher)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/50 "2024-02-05T19:56:53Z")
Sad to see no real spell checker. This is the only reason we could not get Pinegrow approved for use in the classroom. Classes are short and there is no time to use external programs for spell checkingā¦
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### Author:  [@Riccarcharias](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Riccarcharias)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2024, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/51 "2024-02-06T07:18:38Z")
Iād also love to see such a feature. Isnāt it possible to use the computers spell checker? I like in a way that PG does not autocorrect (which sometimes makes wired things on Mac) but I ran often in situations where I had misspelled word which would not happen with a spell checker.
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### Author:  [@EricHiggins](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/EricHiggins)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/52 "2024-09-10T17:07:32Z")
Another option specifically for proofreading āpublishedā websites is [https://www.triplechecker.com](https://www.triplechecker.com). It operates outside of web editors, works in the background, and does not require plugins/installations. If you want to catch errors as youāre writing content, then browser based spellcheckers might do the trick.
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### Author:  [@travelgasm](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/travelgasm)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/no-spell-checker/3336/53 "2024-09-24T03:20:11Z")
> [@schpengle](#):
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> I also use bbedit a lot, not to its full extent, but it also has spell checkers and has a very good free version (which was called TextWrangler - this is now discontinued but there is a free version of bbedit to replace it.)
> I use it for just about all my text files and have to agree with @Thomas above on the importance of the text content. PGās text editor isnāt really suited for creating piles of voluminous texts, so you might just wish to create all your text content outside of it - and then ā¦ you are using an external editor - which more than likely has a spell checker.
BBEdit definitely has a very good spell checker; unless there is a lot of writing, I find myself not using Pinegrow and instead just using BBEdit, but I would really like a proper āwriting modeā on the visual side of Pinegrow. I think the app is almost there, it just needs a bit more tweaking to make it ideal for this purpose. š
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