There is a word-count for the finished text, which is handy, but the final pass of spellchecking then needs to be done on pasting the text into Word or WordPress. There’s no post-typing spell-check or grammar checker to run over the entire finished text, and such things happen as you type. The user presses the Tab key on the keyboard to confirm a suggested word, and doing this rapidly becomes easy and reflexive. Do you look down at the keyboard as you type with two fingers, or look at the screen while ‘typing blind’? That will also partly depend on when you type, as typing in low light is not so easy either way (unless perhaps you have a snazzy gamer keyboard where the letters glow-in-the-dark). If you find this freeware useful will rather depend on what sort of typist you are. Nor can it autoclose HTML tags, leaving you to add the URL and title in the middle. It can’t correct “If can’t” to “It can’t”. Four times seems to be the usual times you type a new word before the software “knows” it. It can even cope with “Lovecraft” after you type his name a few times. It seems the software will learn those as it goes along. As such, it’s not necessary to manually set up a personal configuration file of words. And type “Stoke-on-Trent” a few times and it even gets the hang of that. Initially I thought it was not very British, as it wanted to offer Stanford for “Stoke-on-Trent”, but it can do the county name “Staffordshire” out of the box. Running the Lightkey uninstaller as Admin should cure this). (Note: If you installed a previous version, then uninstalled, a later re-install may hang. But once you finally get out the other side of that slough, and the profile-building, LightkeyPad turns out to be a pleasing simple text editor with fluid predictive auto-typing and some light-touch spelling/grammar correction. Assume you’ll be spending a while on getting it down, and then installed and up and running. exe here, for those who want offline installs. There’s also a direct download link for the. The paid version works with Microsoft Office 2010 (and higher) and the Google Chrome Web browser (only a few online apps, and not WordPress or an offline text editor working inside a browser).īut the free version of Lightkey seems fine, albeit after a download and install that seemed to take aeons. This offers the LightkeyPad text editor with smooth predictive (autocomplete) text, and the editor learns rapidly as you type.
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