Check the Spelling of Your Messages in Yahoo! Mail
To have the text's spelling checked in a message you are composing with Yahoo! Mail:
- Click abc (Check spelling of text in the selected language) in the message's formatting toolbar.
- If you do not see the button in the toolbar, click Switch to Rich Text for checking the spelling; you can then click Switch to Plain Text to go back to plain-text editing, of course.
- Yahoo! Mail will pick the most dominant language in your message automatically for spell checking. You can click the down arrow next to Spelling, though, and select a specific dictionary.
- Click on the words underlined in red with the right mouse button (or, on a Mac, click with the left mouse button while holding down the Ctrl key) to get suggestions.
- To edit an underlined word, use the keyboard cursor keys to navigate the typing cursor into it.
Check the Spelling of Your Messages in Yahoo! Mail Classic
To check the spelling of a message in Yahoo! Mail Classic:
- Select the Spell Check button in the top or bottom Yahoo! Mail Classic toolbar.
If Yahoo! Mail Classic detects a mistake, you can edit the offending word directly or get suggestions by selecting the button with the question mark directly following the entry field.
When your message is perfect, select Done and return to the message composition screen, of course retaining all the spell checker's changes.
(Updated October 2011)
