This is the best thing I have found to share with everyone on active rain! You can spell check your 
entire blog/post and automatically correct ALL errors with ONE click of your mouse. The Google toolbar, it's awesome for so many reasons. The whole time AR's spell check was down I didn't even notice it, since I've been using this for over a year now, and never us Active Rain's spell check for many reasons. Just go in and set the Google tool bar to be on with whatever other tool bars you have that are at the top of your computer screen. I have three toolbars at the top of my computer screen, Google, AOL and A lot. I use them for different things, but the one I use most is the Google spell check. I did another blog sometime back that list additional benefits, but at the time did not know about the ONE CLICK FIXES ALL. This is a link to other cool things the Google spell check does, other than those listed here; Active Rain, Spell check help...you can use Google for AR, tutorial on how to spell check till AR gets theirs fixed. The only thing I've noticed different from what is on the previous blog is Google spell check does not offer other suggestions. It did, so maybe it's me?
Try it...you'll like love it!
This is a list of what the Google toolbar spell check can check that the Active Rain one does not.
- The Title of your Blog/Post
- Your tags
- You Comments
- E-Mails sent via Active Rain
- Group notices
- Group E-Mails
- Group Post
- What you say about Associates you add
- Basically everything that is on the page that you see on your computer
BY FAR THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE TO USING Google TOOLBAR SPELL CHECK IS THE ABILITY TO CHECK AND CORRECT EVERY MISSPELLED WORD WITH ONE CLICK OF YOUR MOUSE! Talk about save time, yes a 
ton of time, especially if you are as bad of a speller as I am :). I can have 40 misspelled words and they are fixed in ONE SECOND! The wording indented is from the Google toolbar settings:
Spellcheck: Basics
The Google Toolbar Spellcheck feature can correct any spelling mistakes you make when you type into a web form, including web-based email, discussion forums, and even intranet web applications.
To run Google Spellcheck, please click the Spellcheck button on your Toolbar. Spellcheck sends text for review to Google servers so we can catch and highlight any incorrect spellings.
If you're feeling lucky, you can let the Google Spellcheck feature automatically correct your spelling by clicking on the arrow to the right of the Spellcheck button and clicking "AutoFix." Don't worry; if Google Spellcheck isn't feeling lucky, it will highlight the words it's unsure of and allow you to correct them yourself.
Load Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer so it's always on the top of your computer screen, when you are ready to spell check (go ahead and put your tags in since it checks those too) the spell check tab on the tool bar is in the middle to the right of "Popups okay", it has (ABC with a green check mark under the ABC to and the left it says Check), so it's ABC Check...remember it also has the green arrow under the ABC. Click on the drop down and select Auto Fix. Like it says above don't worry you can always undo it if not satisfied with the changes, but I have never had to.
BE SURE TO LOOK UP AT THE TAB WHEN DONE, if there are no spell check errors, nothing happens so you 
just sit there. The words go away quickly so hover your cursor over the ABC Check tab and it will say "No spelling errors were identified". Which means you are a much better spelling than I am. Don't close your eyes like my monkey :), but using the new way to spell check will relax you since it's so easy to use :)
When Google spell check finds misspelled words they are turned bright red and with a light blue screen it's so easy to find the misspelled words (see Active Rain, Spell check help...you can use Google for AR, tutorial on how to spell check till AR gets theirs fixed. for all the other features it has), and the computer screen of what your are spell checking i.e. a blog turns light blue, then just click on the Auto Fix and it's done in one second. All the bright red words turn green, when you hit Stop on the ABC tab everything goes back to normal.
You have to go back and click STOP when the spell check is finished, or your can't post it ,send comments
or e-mails, etc. The ABC tab has either Check or Stop on it depending on what you are doing. Remember to go back after your spell check to the tab and click on it. When you go back to the ABC Check button hit stop and the screen goes back to the original color (your computer screen turns a different color during the spell check), that's it, you are done!
Let me know how this works out for you, there is not doubt in my mind you will simply LOVE THIS FEATURE of adding the Google Toolbar to your computer screen, and use it for all of the things you do on Active Rain. You will never use the spell check on AR's once you've used this! Another Plus is when AR's spell check is messing up you wont even know it...I didn't. Please let me know what you think and if this has been helpful to you? Just trying to keep PAYING IT FORWARD, Liz
PS, you can go back and forth between the Stop and Check on the ABC tab. I find I do it several times, you will see as you work with it why that is helpful.
I got a check in the mail for over one thousand dollars. Just since I 
how true, how true...you're gonna love it, I promise!
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I was told about this by TLW a while back when the active rain spell checker was on the fritz. I love it. Thanks for sharing! I use it for my comments to other posts as well.