For the second option in your last suggestion, a simpler work-around might be to type the text in a word processing program first, spellcheck it there, then clipboard it into Xara.
Of course, the easiest idea would be to have spellchecking right within Xara itself. But that might be the start of the slippery slope into creating more of a DTP aspect to Xara, which might upset the "keep it small" enthusiasts around here.
By the way, how come this whole "small footprint" business is so popular. On the smallest hard-drive you can get anymore -- 40 GB -- it would be possible to fit approximately 3800 copies of Xara along with Win2K; so the need to save HDD space is no argument. And, in my experience, when I give Xara a large task to do -- even on my 1.8 GHz processor -- it's bloody slow. So the small footprint doesn't seem to help much.
I make no claim to be highly experienced, nor to have great expertise about all this. So, please enlighten me.
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