The Airtable Electron app—like many others, but not all (see Slite’s app)—lacks support for checking spelling errors as you type. Look, I’m gunna level with you… I suck at spelling. But, I’d rather not have everyone else know it. If you could add spell check support you’d be doing me a solid. Thanks!
Anyone from airtable going to comment on this? Is this something that is being considered. I use the airtable desktop app to input product reviews and online content and have to copy paste everything out into Microsoft word to do a spell check, highly inefficient but necessary as spelling mistakes do happen!
+33Morgan_Ramey wrote:
Please add a spell check feature!!!
Just a reminder that you can use the web version of Airtable to get spell check from your web browser’s spell check capability. And the web version has all the same features as the desktop version.
I think I’ll switch back to using Safari for now, rather than the App, so I can get spelling check back.
The suggestions here, while helpful, are not solutions, but workarounds for the issue: Lack of spellcheck within the Airtable app.
I’d like to add my name to the list of those who would find native spellchecking beneficial.
I found a workaround to this, but it’s not simple. There is a project on GitHub called Nativefier which you can use to create apps for any website. Once you install nativefier, you can create your own AirTable app which will have spell check enabled by default.
To run nativefier on an M1 Mac the command is:
nativefier --arch "arm64" -i '/path/to/airtable/icon.icns' https://airtable.com
+19Donald_Sipe wrote:
I found a workaround to this, but it’s not simple. There is a project on GitHub called Nativefier which you can use to create apps for any website. Once you install nativefier, you can create your own AirTable app which will have spell check enabled by default.
To run nativefier on an M1 Mac the command is:
nativefier --arch "arm64" -i '/path/to/airtable/icon.icns' https://airtable.com
What spellcheck does it use, is there Chrome spell check included?
Any actual resolution here? Airtable MUST get their act together on this. The app should have a spell checker feature already. We are in 2022…
+9OK, I can see spell checking at work nowadays in Airtable v1.5.3 deskop version on M$Windows (11).
But can I also turn this feature off, since typing in another language than English causes lots of inappropriate red underlining ? (While otoh all of Windows and of Airtable itself should preferably remain in_English.)
Yvo_Gerard_Drie wrote:
OK, I can see spell checking at work nowadays in Airtable v1.5.3 deskop version on M$Windows (11).
But can I also turn this feature off, since typing in another language than English causes lots of inappropriate red underlining ? (While otoh all of Windows and of Airtable itself should preferably remain in_English.)
What are you saying, that spell check works?? All I get is an underline, but without any suggestions. Right clicking only give us the option to “Search Google” and does not offer any spelling corrections.
+3My whole team has the same issue as the last comment posted (Nov 2022). I tried submitting a ticket, but only received a canned response to come here. Not helpful.
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