pigeon controller Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 I'm sorry for being an Old ****, but on my IPad I have at the top of the qwerty key board I have possible words I'm trying to spell on my PC this does not appear I've tried going through the icons but am unable to get to appear. Please be gentle and educate this icon of the 1940's . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Some programs will offer spell checking as you type but that's probably about the most you could expect. What programs are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 1 hour ago, pigeon controller said: I'm sorry for being an Old ****, but on my IPad I have at the top of the qwerty key board I have possible words I'm trying to spell on my PC this does not appear I've tried going through the icons but am unable to get to appear. Please be gentle and educate this icon of the 1940's . PC, don`t worry about spell-check. Take a leaf out of Ditchy`s book and type it as it sounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR1 Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 (edited) Look in settings , general , keyboard , predictive is it on or off? Edited April 28, 2019 by TR1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 7 minutes ago, Old Boggy said: PC, don`t worry about spell-check. Take a leaf out of Ditchy`s book and type it as it sounds Thanks, if I did it would be like a script from" Peaky Blinders" 1 minute ago, TR1 said: Look in settings , keyboard , predictive is it on or off? Thanks , I will have a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedge Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 I've never had predictive text on a PC or Laptop - only on tablets and phones. What operating system do you have? (Win 8 etc) When do you want the predictive text to come up? (i.e typing in this forum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2019 21 hours ago, hedge said: I've never had predictive text on a PC or Laptop - only on tablets and phones. What operating system do you have? (Win 8 etc) When do you want the predictive text to come up? (i.e typing in this forum) I'm currently happy with windows7, although my son wants me to go to 10 but thinks it will throw me. i would like predictive text to come up when typing on this forum. My son suggested that I write my initial topics in word , with spell check , then post on the forum. That seems a lot of faffing about to me. Thanks for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncher Posted April 29, 2019 Report Share Posted April 29, 2019 Not hard all you have to do is copy and paste it,job done. PS my spelling is atrocious as well. If you have a smart phone get PW on there and it has spell check on already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted April 29, 2019 Report Share Posted April 29, 2019 I think you could try spell check in your browser. Both Chrome and Firefox have it in the settings menu somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedge Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 15 hours ago, pigeon controller said: I'm currently happy with windows7, although my son wants me to go to 10 but thinks it will throw me. i would like predictive text to come up when typing on this forum. My son suggested that I write my initial topics in word , with spell check , then post on the forum. That seems a lot of faffing about to me. Thanks for your reply. I've had a quick look and it seems that unless you use an `on screen` keyboard in Windows, you can't get predicitve text. So, if you are using a keyboard to type, you won't get predictive text. The suggestion of writing your content in Word first is a very good idea. I use it quite a lot for posting adverts on jobs boards and also posting adverts on Gumtree. Takes no time at all to just copy and paste it across (highlight the text and either right click your mouse to copy and then paste or press ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste). Give it a go - you might like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 4 hours ago, hedge said: I've had a quick look and it seems that unless you use an `on screen` keyboard in Windows, you can't get predicitve text. So, if you are using a keyboard to type, you won't get predictive text. The suggestion of writing your content in Word first is a very good idea. I use it quite a lot for posting adverts on jobs boards and also posting adverts on Gumtree. Takes no time at all to just copy and paste it across (highlight the text and either right click your mouse to copy and then paste or press ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste). Give it a go - you might like it! Thanks , will give it a try when I can shoot pigeons again. It will beat me typing on P W on my PC and having my phone on Google to check spelling???? I'm complete self taught Luddite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedge Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 hour ago, pigeon controller said: Thanks , will give it a try when I can shoot pigeons again. It will beat me typing on P W on my PC and having my phone on Google to check spelling???? I'm complete self taught Luddite. No problem. If you don't have the most up to date Word programme - you can get a free alternative here: https://www.libreoffice.org/ I still have Win 7 on my desktop and Win 8 on 2 laptops. Trying to stay away from Win 10 as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westward Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 Allegedly it can be done in Windows 10 via Settings-Devices-Typing-Multilingual text suggestions. I haven't tried it as I'm from a generation when dyslexia hadn't yet been invented. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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