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Finnish spell checker for mac os pages?
Can anyone tell me where I can find Finnish spell checker for mac os Pages 09. As not available through Apple. Would be much appreciated.
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How to change the document language in Keynote and make the red lines disappear?
I am working on a slideshow in Spanish. Pages has the "More" tab on the inspector which allows you to change the language of the selected text / document, but Keynote lacks it.
I know you can ...
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Keyboard shortcut to correct spelling mistakes
Is there any way for me to get all of the words detected by the standard OS X spelling checker as mistakes, to be corrected to the first available choice using a keyboard shortcut?
E.g. I type ...
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Can I bring up spelling suggestion menu with a keyboard shortcut?
As an example, when I spell "misstake", a white-blue contextual menu pops up with some suggestions.
When I move on, and want to return to it later, there seems to be no way to call up the menu again. ...
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How can I change spell check to Turkish in Pages?
I started to use Pages. I want to change spell check language. But I don't find Turkish in the language menu (inspector of Pages). How can I add Turkish into the language menu? Thanks.
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How can I enable Mountain Lion Spellcheck in Google Chrome?
Chrome's spellcheck has become cumbersome as of the new auto-correct spell check in Mountain Lion. I love that I don't have to go to the mouse and use a context menu for spell-checking---EXCEPT IN ...
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How to turn off the spellchecker for a specific document?
I'm in Canada, and I use my mac to write documents in both English and French. Generally, I find that the built-in spellchecker (on 10.7.4) does a great job of automatically detecting which language ...
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How do I get spell checking to work in Google Chrome?
Typing adsfsadf on this edit box now... and there is no spell checking. But in the context menu spell checking is activated, and the correct language is selected. The same issue exists on about 90% of ...
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is it possible to spell check PDF files?
Is it possible to spell check PDF files? In Preview.app the "Edit > Spelling & Grammar > Check Document Now (⌘;)" is disabled. I'm working on a LaTeX document in Emacs and would like to use the OS ...
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How can I change the language for automatic spelling correction?
I set my input source to be US English. And the flag showing on the taskbar is also an American flag.
But whenever I type something in Mail.app or Notes.app the spell check still corrects my spelling ...
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iPhone 4S Auto-Correct
Is there any way that I can get auto-correct on my iPhone 4S to stop changing the word "Yo" to "To?" I have tried adding a keyboard shortcut for "Yo" as well as adding Spanish to my International ...
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Is it possible to hack the “Correct spelling automatically” setting in OS X to emit a sound when correcting?
There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do ...
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Is there a way to spellcheck the word under the cursor with a keyboard shortcut?
Basically, is there any way to trigger the native OS X spellcheck context menu using a keyboard shortcut. I know the command keys ⌘+: activates spellcheck, but what I'm trying to do is get the result ...
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Language setting for spell-check in Pages
I'm new to Pages (from iWork) and have troubles with the spell-check function. It's simply not working for me.
Almost everything is underlined red. No matter what language I write in. I did not write ...
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How do I open the mac context menu from the keyboard?
When I make a spelling error in a document, Lion gives me the option to correct the error by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, two-finger tapping, etc) on the misspelled word and bringing up the ...
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Per-application selection of correct spell checker language on Mac?
I am Norwegian, but I set up my new iMac with English as the primary language.
My question is this:
Can I configure Mac OS X (possibly through a 3rd party application, free or not) to pick the ...
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How can I tell OS X to flag a name as being misspelled?
I have a co-worked whose name is Jennett. In Pages, I added her to my local dictionary (located at ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary) by right-clicking on her name and choosing Learn Spelling.
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Spell check settings
Right now i am using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 (on my macbook pro). I am doing a project on Hispania (an old Roman province) which today is currently Spain. My spell check has switched languages to ...
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Easy way to install additional spell-check dictionaries for OS X?
I am looking for an easy way to install spell-check dictionaries for languages that are not supported by default on OS X (one example Romanian).
By easy way, I mean a solution that does not require ...
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How to seamlessly switch between spelling languages in Mail?
I write my emails in two languages. So system-wide spelling language setting is not very useful for me, since in span of working day I usually write half of my emails in one language and half in ...
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How to enable the iOS spell checker in Mobile Safari?
The iOS spell checker works for me in all the iOS applications, but it doesn't seem to work for text I type in a text area in Mobile Safari. For instance, spelling errors are underlined in red for ...
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Is it possible to disable spellcheck for Coda but leave it enabled for other applications?
I use Coda as web editor, and I usually have to mix Italian and English nouns and phrases. I don't want spellcheck on (as I use programming-related words such as uid and pid), so I'd like to ...
