An email full of typos undermines you, especially at work. Good news: you can fix the spelling of your emails in seconds, right inside your inbox, without copy-pasting anything. Here’s how, whether you use Gmail, Outlook or Thunderbird.
The copy-paste problem
The usual method (copy your text, paste it into an online checker, paste the result back) is slow and loses your formatting (bold, lists, signatures). A spell checker built into the compose window solves this: the correction happens in place.
In Gmail and Outlook web (browser)
Install the Correctify for Chrome or Firefox extension. Then, in the Gmail or Outlook compose window:
- Select your message text (or the whole email body).
- Right-click, then choose “Fix the text”.
- The text is replaced with its corrected version, formatting preserved.
In Thunderbird
For email outside the browser, Correctify for Thunderbird adds the same right-click “Fix the text” action inside the compose window. Bold, lists and paragraphs are preserved: the email goes out clean.
What about desktop apps (Outlook, Mail…)?
If you write emails in an installed app rather than the browser, the Windows app fixes text in any software: select, press the shortcut, done. It even offers tones (professional, polite, concise…) to match your message to the recipient.
The language is detected automatically
Writing an email in English to a client? No setting to change: the language is detected automatically and the text is corrected in that language, never translated.
In short
No more keeping a “checker” tab next to your inbox. With an extension or the app, you fix your emails right where you write them, without breaking the formatting, in every language. And it’s free.