Mark (et al), I've been using a little IE add-on called ieSpell for years. It's free, fast, unobtrusive, spyware-free, and adware-free. There does seem to be one glitch with IE8 in that, when it comes upon a misspelled word, it fails to highlight the word in the text. So far, that hasn't bothered me too much because the misspelled word is shown in the ieSpell box. I've reported this bug and I suspect (hope) they will fix it before long.

Jack

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton