Google-chrome – Chrome Browser – Keyboard shortcut to correct spelling of word

Usually both the context menu key (to the left of the right Ctrl key) and the combination Shift+F10 bring up the context menu.

However, if the application is relying on the mouse pointer's location when opening the context menu to provide additional entries (such as the spell-checking stuff), then you can't do much. IE7Pro's spell checker does that too and it annoys me. Word gets this right (but for Word it's a core feature, not something tacked on which looks nice on a feature list).

Actually, I'd consider that a bug in the respective application as the context for the context menu is not the mouse pointer when opening the menu by keyboard. Especially not if it's inside a text input field.

But short of reporting a bug to the Chrome developers there probably isn't much you can do. Maybe you could whip up some ugly Autohotkey evilness which moves the mouse pointer to the location of the text cursor when pressing the context menu key. But since browsers don't use native controls but instead render everything on their own you probably can't do much from there either (as it may well be impossible to figure out where the text cursor is located).

There is another related question: see Chris Johnsen's answer since it relates to spell check.

There are standard shortcuts for the built-in spell checking. Not all applications may have these menu items.

• ⌘; — Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling
  • This selects the next ‘misspelled’ word.
• ⌘: — Edit > Spelling > Spelling…
  • This selects the next ‘misspelled’ word and opens the Spelling floating window.
  • To focus the floating window without using the mouse, you can use the “full keyboard access” shortcuts (enable them in System Preferences, search for “full keyboard access”, it (and the extra shortcuts it enables) are under the “Keyboard Navigation” subtree.
    • You may need to reassign the shortcuts.
    • The default for “move focus to the floating window” is ⌃F6, but that seems to be used by the editor here on SO, so I needed to change it to test it while composing this answer (I used ⌥F6).
    • Once focus is on the Spelling floating window, you can
      • dismiss it with Escape, or
      • use Tab to move to the various controls, and
      • with the replacement textbox focused, you can
        • use Up and Down to select replacements, and
        • type a replacement, and
        • use Return to activate the default button: Correct