Spell Checker - Friend Or Foe

The job of the proofreader has been made considerably easier since the advent of Microsoft Word. Gone are the days where corrections were pencilled into margins of typewritten A4 sheets as the spell check function highlights all of those grammatical gaffes and keyboard clangers . To be honest I just see these squiggly lines as saying something is wrong, but they are colour coded, the main ones being green highlighting grammatical errors and red spelling ones. So thanks to the introduction of the spell checker, proofreading that novel is simply a matter of hitting F7 and sifting through the squiggles, isn't it?

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