Add-on to implement pre-emptive spell-checking

[ChrisGreaves]

(we also need an Andy-Gibson delay-mechanism to give ordinary people a fighting chance at responding hah hah!)
I've had three attempts at pre-emptive spell-checking in MSWord; rather than invoke Spell-Checker, I invoke a machine that has learned what my common mistakes are at this folder level and below and does the fixing-up before the regular spell-check is invoked. One of these days I'll get it right.

In the meantime I am hammering away in this text box in FF 3.6.15 (When did that slip in? I was at 3.6.14 two days ago?!!) and typing " i " instead of " I ", and "serach" instead of "search" etc, and in a moment I'll grope for the mouse and right-click all the corrections.

Why can't we have an add-on that we train to fix, automatically, prior to our right-click spell-check, a search-and-replace for all the known foibles for those of us who are too old to change a lifetime's two-fingered pecking?

(OK Andy, you can come out of hiding now ...)

[HansV]

In MS Office, you can use AutoCorrect to correct common typos - in fact, it catches things like "woudl" and "teh" out of the box. When you're correcting spelling, you can click AutoCorrect to add a typo plus the corrected version to your AutoCorrect list.

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There is no AutoCorrect add-on for Firefox, as far as I know.

[ChrisGreaves]

In MS Office, you can use AutoCorrect to correct common typos

Quite so, but the Word AutoCorrect operates on every document, and cannot (without great VBAagility) be customized for a client or project tree of folders. As well I was looking for something that could augment the AutoCorrect on-the-fly.

There is no AutoCorrect add-on for Firefox, as far as I know.

Thanks for the confirmation Hans. Shall we let Andy out of his cage?

[ChrisGreaves]

In MS Office, you can use AutoCorrect ...

And this evening I stumbled across this:-
"You can save a section break and the formatting it contains as an AutoText entry for future use."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291184

[HansV]

I don't quite see how that would help with spell-checking, but it can be useful...