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In order to add a spellchecker your WYSIWYG editor, it makes sense that you first need a WYSIGYG editor installed. In this example we're using TinyMCE. Click here for our instrucitons on installing TinyMCE.

We're going to install the Wysiwyg SpellCheck module: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_spellcheck.

This installation will take a few minutes at least, so please follow these steps carefully.

In writing this tutorial, only the Development release worked successfully for me. It might be worth trying the Recommend release first and then th Development release if that doesn't work for you.

We also need to install the TinyMCE plugin that will provide the spellchecker.

• Go to http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php and click Download next to PHP Spellchecker 2.0.6.
• Extract the files.

• Login to your Drupal site files.
• Browse to /sites/all/libraries/tinymce/.
• Locate the /plugins/ folder.
• Upload the /spellchecker/ folder here, as in the image below.

• The contents of the spellchecker folder should look like they do below:

• In your Drupal site, go to Reports > Status Report.
• Check that Wysiwyg TinyMCE spellchecker is marked as "Installed correctly".

• In your browser, visit this URL: Visit http://YOURSITE/sites/all/libraries/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/spellchecker/rpc.php
• You should see the image below. If you don't, check that the permissions are correct for your TinyMCE and Spellchecker files and folders.

Now that the installation is complete, we can use the spellchecker.

• Go to Configuration > Wysiwyg profiles.
• Click edit next to a text format.
• Open the Buttons and Plugins area.
• Scroll down and enable the Spell check button.

• Go to write a new content item.
• You know that you've enabled the spellchecker correcty if you have a dropdown arrow next to the spellcheck. That dropdown will show different languages available in the spellchecker.
• The spellchecker won't run automatically. Click the button to make it operate.