Hi Carole:
You're not alone with Google Chrome. Try this thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=127a69ac5fddee03&hl=en Evidently everyone gets the red squiggles.
My experience is with Microsoft Word and it does offer you alternate spellings. What it hates is sentence fragments, but there is a choice to change (i.e. ignore) the grammar rule it incorrectly thinks is wrong.
Good luck.
Artemis
