Study: Spell-Check Can Make Writing Worse By CHARLES SHEEHAN, Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH - How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button.

A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may level the playing field between people with differing levels of language skills, hampering the work of writers and editors who place too much trust in the software.

--More proof of the Dark Evil of Microsoft.