Hi microUgly and Friends,
It seems that we suddenly have spell checking in the message editor But I don't see any way to disable it, in my Control Panel. Can it be disabled?

Thanks for your help

PS -- Well now I don't see it anymore. Maybe it's just in the Help subforum??? Hhmmm.....well yes, I'm wide awake I know I saw it!

Edit
Ok, that was really, really weird. The editor was highlighting misspelled words with the red wiggly lines. I'm looking everywhere I can think. You know, like maybe I accidentally clicked a button. But I surely cannot find how it happened

That's your web browser, not the forum

Most modern browsers have a spell checker, and I'm sure they all allow you to disable it if you don't like it.

Oh it was the weirdest thing. Well first, I don't have any spell checking enabled, because I don't like it (find it annoying). It just showed up when I was 3/4 finished typing a message. After I posted the message, I spent 10 or 15 minutes looking for a new forum feature, or a button that I might have accidentally clicked. After finding nothing, I posted this topic, where I did not see any spell checking. That made me think maybe you had set up spell checking only in certain subforums.

Since then I've been back to the topic where I first saw it, tried editing that same message; typed several more replies; tried everything. I haven't seen it happen since!

Unless there's some key combination that I didn't know I used, perhaps enabled it. But if that's the case, I don't know how I inadvertently disabled it. I'll have to look up key shorcuts for Firefox. Ooooorrrr.....I would find it really strange if there were a spell check related to my system, that's actived by a key shortcut.....but I guess there could be.

Well, you know I love a good mystery, lol!

Anyway, thanks micro

If you're running Firefox, you can enter "about:config" in the location bar to get access to all the user's preferences. Click the "I'll be careful, I promise" box and then enter "spell" in the Search box. I'm not sure what they do but you now have the names to search Mozilla's site for. Enjoy hunting.

Well I've solved part of the problem. I did find a list of key shortcuts for Ff, but it turns out not to be a key shortcut. My right-click menu, in Firefox (and not in IE) offers an option called "Check Spelling"! Who knew?!! But that option is only there if the mouse pointer is in a text field. I use that right-click so seldom because I've gotten into the habit of using Ctrl + C or V, etc. for copy/paste, etc. In IE, all there is usually, is cut, copy, paste and delete. I've only been using Firefox for a year or 2, and never really paid attention to the right-click menu, since I use it so infrequently.

So how did I manage to click it, you ask? I actually have very poor mouse dexterity, and am not surprised at all, that I clicked it accidentally, Actually I probably right-clicked on purpose, but didn't intend to choose that option. Probably my finger slipped when I was trying to right-click outside the text field. Then I probably had to click again to get rid of that menu, but clicked Check Spelling instead

At this moment, I have it narrowed to Firefox, but I'm still trying to learn if it's related to some add-on, plug-in or extension. Does anyone else who uses Firefox have such an option? Maybe all Ff users have it?? I actually have a topic in the FF forums, but it can't hurt to ask here. I don't think any potentially conflicting info would be a problem, in this case (although usually I wouldn't post topics in more than one forum).

Anyway, mystery partly solved