Spell Checker

Has anyone else noticed how awful Microsoft Word's spellchecker is?  Maybe I have more trouble with it than most people because my spelling is atrocious.  However, I remember back in the day (mid 90's) when spellchecker was considered to be the achievement of mankind.  These days, I often have to type my misspelled, gibberish-like words into Google just to spell-check it properly.  Funny how much more effective a search engine is at spell checking - too bad there wasn't a plugin available that would just do that for me automatically.