DW's antiquated spell checker
As an aging writer who has become a very poor typist I'm plagued with typos that disrupt my train of thought. I spend half my time running DW's awkward and antiquated spell check utility while wondering why Adobe doesn't include the modern 'spell check as you type' utility that the rest of the world is using. I note that my 2000 version of MS Word has it. Even this box I'm now typing into now has it. Does it cost too many billions of dollars for Adobe to add it to the Dreamweaver web editor that I pay over $250 dollars a year for the right to use? Maybe its because not enough users complain. Or maybe many just quietly abandon Dreamweaver and start using Microsoft Expression. I already have that program installed on my computer and after talking to Adobe on the phone, feel like I'm being forced to start using it. This is all becoming quite beyond strange, knowing that Adobe Systems is a for profit corporation that should be sensitive to small things that might alienate customers.
As it stands I have to compose my documents in Microsoft Word, block and paste them into Notepad (to strip out unwanted code), then block and copy the text, create a new HTML page in DW and finally paste the raw text into it. I still have to build the desired formatting to include such things as graphics, tables, paragraph indents, font sizes and colors, ad infinitum. This is all while I could have been doing that during the document's composition. What a totally unnecessary rigamarole.
I hate Microsoft and I'm beginning to hate Adobe for forcing me in that direction. Yet I don't seem to have a choice but to drop my paid account in spite of the fact that I like everything else about the software. Adobe doesn't care if I do. So much for that. Goodby cruel world.
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