Spellex Write-Assist for Google Docs and Microsoft Word

Spellex helps you write and read with confidence. It finds the spelling mistakes other spell checkers miss, especially words spelled the way they sound, and reads your writing back to you. It is made for students in college and university, adults at work and medical staff, and for anyone with dyslexia or other reading and writing difficulties.

Spellex is made by Spellex Technologies, LLC, of Tampa, Florida. See www.spellex.com.

What Spellex does

• Check Spelling: finds misspelled words and suggests the right ones, including "Sounds like" words for spellings by sound, such as fone for phone and becuz for because. Hear each suggestion before you choose it.
• Spelling Report: a list of the words you misspelled and the corrections you made.
• Homophones: words that are easy to mix up, such as their, there and they're, with the meaning of each.
• MedXpand: writes out medical abbreviation codes.
• Specialist dictionaries: medical, bioscience, legal and veterinary word lists, in US or UK spelling.
• Word Bank: your own list of words to learn, with their meanings; hear them, insert them and practice spelling them.
• Readability: how easy your text is to read, with its long sentences and harder words.
• Definition: what a word means.
• Read Aloud: hear your text read aloud, word by word.
• Reading View: read your document in the font, size, spacing and colors that suit you, including the DysLex font, with line focus.

Spellex checks your writing in your own web browser: your documents are not sent to Spellex. Read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

Spellex Write-Assist for Google Docs

Install it

In a Google Doc, choose Extensions > Add-ons > Get add-ons, search for Spellex Write-Assist and click Install. Google asks you to allow two permissions:

• to view and change only the document Spellex is open in (never your other files, your Drive or your email), and
• to show the Spellex panel in Google Docs.

A school or company can install Spellex for all its users from the Google Admin console.

Use it

1. Open a document and choose Extensions > Spellex Write-Assist > Open Spellex. The Spellex panel opens on the right.
2. Choose a tool at the top of the panel: Spelling, Homophones, MedXpand, Word Bank, Readability, Definition, Read Aloud, Reading View or Settings.
3. Check Spelling: click Check Document. Spellex selects each misspelled word in the document and shows its suggestions. Click a suggestion and Change, or Ignore, Ignore All or Add to My Words. Create Spelling Report opens the report as a PDF.
4. Read Aloud: select some text and click Read Selection, or read the whole document. Choose the voice and the speed in the panel.
5. Reading View: click Show Document, choose a profile (such as Dyslexia-Friendly Reading) or your own font, size, spacing and color, and Open in a Larger Window to read in a bigger window.

Your settings, your own words and your Word Bank are saved in your Google account, so they follow you to every computer where you use Spellex.

In Google Docs, MedXpand codes are expanded with Expand All Codes and the code finder, not as you type, and Read Aloud says a sentence with Say the Sentence I Just Wrote, not as you type: Google Docs does not tell add-ons what is typed.

Free trial and product key

Spellex is free to try for 15 days from the first time you open it. After the trial, a Spellex product key is required, with a perpetual or an annual license. Buy a key at www.spellex.com or call 1-813-792-7000, then in Settings, under License, type it in Product key and click Activate.

Remove it

Choose Extensions > Add-ons > Manage add-ons, then the menu of Spellex Write-Assist and Uninstall. To also remove its access to your Google account, go to myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Spellex Write-Assist for Word on Mac and on the web

Spellex Write-Assist is also an add-in for Word for Mac, Word on the web and Word for Windows (Microsoft 365). Read the user guide.

Contact and support

Spellex Technologies, LLC
3030 N Rocky Point Dr W Ste 150, Tampa, Florida 33607, USA
Phone: 1-813-792-7000
Email: support@spellex.com
Web: www.spellex.com