Spell checker not working.
I know this subject has been started but a cursory look through the forum shows no fix. I am pretty clueless with anything technical as far as computers go but I can look through menu's on the task bar and see or find nothing relating to spell checking or dictionaries or where to find them. I run the spell checker after each email and it never shows spelling mistakes but just reading back through a few recent emails I rushed out I am seeing countless spelling mistakes the spell checker did not pick up. I don't know what to do. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thank you. Whilst I am here. I regularly get an error box from Mozilla apologising for thunderbird crashing and to file a report when in fact it did not crash and I had shut it down as normal. UK resident.
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Click the three horizontal lines at the top right and choose "Settings" from the list. If you have the Menu Bar switched on you can also click "Edit" > "Settings."
Now click "Add-ons and Themes" (bottom left). In the column on the left of the next screen click "Dictionaries." At the top of the next screen is is a box labelled "Find more add-ons." Type "British English Dictionary" into that and several will come up with a big green button labelled "Add to Thunderbird" next to them. Take your pick and click the appropriate green button.
For the record I use one called "British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)" and have had no problems with it.
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