How do I check spelling?

Right click in the text editor, and check Check Spelling to enable spelling. If this menu item is not visible, you can to to Tools | Customize Menus…, select Context Menu on the list, and then click the Reset button.

Importing a third-party dictionary

  1. Download a dictionary from OpenOffice extensions.
  2. After downloading a dictionary, change the file extension from .oxt to .zip, and extract the zip file.
  3. Copy the *.dic and *.aff files to the Dictionaries sub folder of the EmEditor install folder (usually %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\EmEditor\Dictionaries or C:\Program Files\EmEditor\Dictionaries).
  4. Right click in the text editor and in Dictionaries, select the dictionary that you want to use.