Accessing existing Win 7 spell check

[AthenaW]

Despite all the posts on Google insisting that Win 7 doesn't *have* a spell check, this is obviously untrue. I have spell check both in Firefox and when I post to Facebook, and those two have their own independent spell list, as they allow me to add new words to the list...and those *new* words appear in both places. This list *must* reside somewhere on my hard drive.



I want to be able to spell check when I'm using WordPad, and I want to use the spelling list that I've been adding to for all the years that I've been using Win 7.



Can anyone suggest where I can start, or a way to access/use *that* spelling list?

 

[Snick]

Firefox
Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder
persdict.dat
open with notepad, notepad++, etc.

Not sure about Facebook, this may help you
Method 2
4 Ways to Put Spell Check on Facebook - wikiHow

 

[AthenaW]

Firefox
Help -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Directory:
Windows: Show Folder
persdict.dat
open with notepad, notepad++, etc.

Thank you.

 

[Snick]

 

[Alejandro85]

Your premise is wrong, Windows 7, as you've found many times already, does NOT have any kind of spell checker on its own. What you're using right now is Firefox's checker, which is exclusive to it and not tied to Windows in any way.
Everything you do at Firefox, all websites you use it for will have it, but that's it, it won't exist outside the browser (should you ever install another browser, you won't have all the newly added words).

I have spell check both in Firefox and when I post to Facebook, and those two have their own independent spell list, as they allow me to add new words to the list...and those *new* words appear in both places.

Facebook is nothing but a website, it doesn't exist in your computer at all. You open Facebook within a browser (Firefox in this case), and its the browser who provides spell-checking, not Facebook or Windows. Everything you open within Firefox (including this very Sevenforums) will use the same spell-checker and word list, because it's provided by the browser.

This list *must* reside somewhere on my hard drive.

Most likely it does, and Snick links address those. How to make something useful out of that list is another matter.

I want to be able to spell check when I'm using WordPad, and I want to use the spelling list that I've been adding to for all the years that I've been using Win 7.

Wordpad doesn't offer any type of spell checking, much less to the chance to use Firefox's word list. You need to use a more serious text processor to have spell checking, like MSOffice's Word. Of course, you won't be using the same word list you use on Firefox, as they're independent of each other.