But all too often today, a desktop computer's spell checker is the only line of defense against errors in documents.

The first spell checkers were widely available on mainframe computers in the late 1970s.

Not that spell checkers are used by nearly everyone.

Like nearly everything else to do with computers, a spell checker is marvelous in principle.

The grant writer should not rely on the computer's spell checker to catch errors.

A feature is something like adding a spell checker to your program.

While the program includes a spell checker, it does not check for spelling as the user types.

Why is the spell checker on this site using American English?

We do things like add spell checkers to an editor window.

Pagemaker 4 just comes with a basic English spell checker.