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O man, that auto-correct function pisses me off sometimes. Like I said before, spell-check doesn't bother me so much because sometimes when I am on a roll, I don't have to worry about fixing stuff right away and can easily find it (but I still read my work anyways, and I work in Wordpad rather than Word typically anyways, so I have to reread everything carefully anyways multiple times). But I have to always make sure auto-correct is turned off because I can change it myself, thank you, and also, if I am typing fast, I might not see that it changed something, and many times it wants to change it to something wrong. XD

I type all of my important posts (roleplaying and the like) in Word because I know that I am not perfect. Spellcheck is useful because it shows me what I typed wrong (boo for autocorrect! I can change my words myself.) and rather than going through the list of corrections, I manually correct the word.

As it was stated by Critic, spellcheckers are nice, but a human proofreader/editor is always necessary.

Spell-checkers aren't bad but they're not the best. Yes they do promote laziness but that doesn't really bother me since I'm somewhat lazy myself. -slightly ashamed- For my friends however, they don't use the computer, they use me.

Regardless, for any writing, I myself read it over myself several times. Chapters for fanfics and original stories go through the strainer at least five times.

Spell-checkers can indeed be helpful but human intellect is needed for proof-reading. Although like many others, AutoCorrect drives me positively nuts.

I like spell-checkers occasionally, but only on the days that I can't type or maybe when I'm in a hurry and don't want to check it over myself. However, I'm also a fanfic authoress and I prefer to proofread my stories personally because of the many words that can slip by with spell-check. It really bugs me when I look over my stories and find one little error that I have to change. It's just annoying to have to click and click, over and over again, constantly being paranoid about the possible homophones and various other loop holes that escape. neutral I wonder why they invented spell-check, other than convenience.

I prefer to use spellcheckers to make sure I didn't leave any typos here and there, specially when working on a rush.

I work as assistant translator with my dad (we do Spanish/English and English/Spanish translations), so spelling and grammar are critical in our success. Although my first language is Spanish, I do enjoy learning as much as possible while I work with my dad. Spellcheckers do not work very well on grammar or complex wording, so we do have to proofread all of our work, and even if it is extenuating, we can also review what he have done and even improve it on-the-fly.

I don't like spellcheckers because they always tell me I've spelled my name wrong. domokun

I have to say that honestly I haven't used a spell check program in probably 2 years. Seriously. I hate the fact that they have even created them. My oldest son was in the 9th grade before I realized he was using them because he was a bad speller and had forgotten how to use the dictionary properly. Since then, my husband has actually removed the program from the Windows version (or disabled I'm not sure which) on the kids computer so they have to use the dictionary.

For those wondering why I used it 2 years ago if I hate them so much.... it was a 65 page thesis paper and after reading it 15 times the words blended and I used it as a fail safe. Missed 2 words.

Total bane in my opinion. My husband on the other hand is such a horrible speller (and grammer idiot - his words) that anything he writes looks like a six year old did it. So, I'm his spell check at home and he uses the programs at work.