I use Live Writer when creating my posts. For the most part, it works OK for me, but the spell-check is awful.  The dictionary is nowhere near what Word and Outlook are.  Why can't the Live Writer team use the same dictionary as the Word and Outlook teams?  After all, it's just a dictionary!  I know it's in Beta, but Google's Betas are more solid than Microsoft's.

Because of this limitation, when I create a post, I always copy/paste into Word to do a spell-check.  Once it is checked and my typos corrected, I copy/paste from Word back into Live Writer.  Then, I insert links, format it, proof it and finally publish it (I have the option selected to do a automatically do a spell-check before publishing).  

In a previous post, I used the word 'cancelled'.  In Word, acceptable ways of spelling are 'canceled' and 'cancelled'.  In Live Writer, ‘cancelled’ was picked up as misspelled and suggested spelling it as 'canceled'.  Word just told me is was OK and now it's not? 

What did I expect when it can’t even suggest a fix for its own name!  

And, while I'm speaking about Live Writer, why do I have to hit 'Shift+F7' to perform a spell-check when Word and Outlook have taught me to use 'F7'.  Consistency here people.

Anyone suggest another editor that is fully baked?