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Disable red underline in notes app
I tried to disable spellcheck and grammer check in the notes app but still I see red underlines in the notes app:
I've also checked the keyboard settings in system preferences and made sure all ...
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How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?
In Windows, one can hit Shift+F10 to access the "Context Menu." But a similar keyboard action doesn't seem possible on Mac. One potential application...
When I make a spelling error in a document, ...
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What words are stored in `~/Library/Spelling/en`?
John Gruber recently tweeted on Mastodon:
One of my favorite features on the Mac [...] is adding new words to the system-wide spelling dictionary. The feature dates back to Mac OS X 10.0 and I'm ...
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How to add a custom global spellchecker (Esperanto language) on macOS?
Esperanto is an artificially constructed language which has about 2 millions speakers globally. Understandably, macOS doesn't come with an Esperanto language dictionary / spellchecker preinstalled. I'...
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How to add a correction to the personal dictionary
In macOS I can Right click -> Learn Spelling on a word for which the system thinks it is wrongly spelled, but (for me) it is spelled correctly. The word then gets added to my personal dictionary.
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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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Mac won't autocorrect 'hte'
This has been going on for way too long and I'm hoping someone can help me.
For whatever reason, the last two Macs I've had have stopped autocorrecting the word 'hte'. I could of course just learn how ...
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Can I disable auto-correction of a single word on OS X?
I'm running into an annoying issue with OS X's automatic spelling correction where the word nala gets automatically corrected to napa.
I've tried adding nala to my custom dictionary under ~/Library/...
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Is there a way to get system-wide Grammarly correction on MacOS?
Is it possible to get Grammarly checking system-wide on MacOS? As far as I know, Grammarly only works as a browser plugin or Microsoft Office plugin (maybe more). Grammarly is fantastic, but the need ...
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How to turn off new popup for spell checking in Word for Mac on macOS 11.3
After the last macOS update, a popup started appearing when you click on a misspelled word in Word for Mac.
This is a very frustrating function when you work in several different languages not always ...
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How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS!
How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS - for each and every app. Whenever I turn off this option in anyone of my default or third party mac apps within a few seconds these ...
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Spellcheck stopped working in Monterey 12.1
Spellcheck has stopped working in all my apps since upgrading to 12.1 and/or installing Grammarly.
Misspelled words are NOT underlined in red.
-I uninstalled Grammerly
-I checked to make sure ...
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macOS built-in spell checker performs badly - what can I do?
macOS Mojave cannot detect that I made a mistake at badd and cannot guess that "approximately" was spelled incorrectly.
How can I improve the built-in spell checker? (i.e. I don't want to use a spell ...
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How to completely turn off spell check in macOS Big Sur
Spelling autocorrect and checking seem to have changed in Big Sur.
I have disabled Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check spelling while typing, I unchecked System Preferences > Keyboard > ...
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Locating the file in which a dictionary word is stored
I misspelt the word "analogous", and I found that the system spellchecker offered "anbalagous" as a possible correction. As far as I can tell, "anbalagous" isn't a real ...
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macOS keyboard shortcut for correcting misspelled words?
In a Mac OS X native textfields, misspelled and typo'd words are underlined with a red squiggle.
Is there a standard keyboard shortcut that will correct a mispelling by selecting the most-likely ...
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How to enable spell check in Notes?
I want to enable the option Check spelling while typing in macOS Notes app.
This is usually done in:
Notes > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check spelling while typing.
But, I cannot. For some ...
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Turn off new popup for spell checking in MS Word for Mac on macOS 10.15
After my last macOS update, a popup started appearing when you click/hover on a misspelled word in MS Word for Mac.
This is very frustrating when you are working with randomly generated IDs.
I've ...
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Mojave spell check keeps flagging correct words and tries to change them to grammatically incorrect words
So this has been driving me crazy - it feels like I have a grammar troll living in my computer. MacOS's spell checker keeps flagging words as misspelled that aren't. I notice it mostly in Mail, ...
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Stop autocorrect from autocorrecting a word even if I re-type it after it has been autocorrected
If I type 'grg' it gets autocorrected on the next time I press space to 'gtg'.
If I backspace the 'tg' and then type 'rg' to once again form the word 'grg', it still autocorrects (again) to 'gtg'.
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macOS Sierra - iMessage corrects me despite spellcheck is turned off
Good day!
iMessage on my mac fixes my typos as I type despite the fact that I've disabled spell check in settings.
Here is how it looks:
Is there any way to fix that? Thank you in advance.
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Is there a shortcut to undo MacOS's spell check correction without completely disabling it?
I like Mac's spell check in general but in some cases, it gets it wrong. Is there a shortcut to quickly undo its spell correction?
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Can't enable spell checker option in Xcode
Option is greyed out and I cannot enable spell checking in Xcode
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Enable spell check for various languages in Chrome
I use Yosemite with Chrome version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit). When writing in a text area the spell checker correctly detects English and French, but does not detect Spanish, and so it marks as wrong ...
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How to disable "Spelling and Grammar" globally, for all apps?
I have searched for the similar title, got a few answers which are not applicable to my case:
Is disabling spell check systemwide still possible in Sierra? (redirects to the next link)
Is it possible ...
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How to get rid of spell checker on macOS Mojave?
I have disabled spell checker in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.
Also, in TextEdit, under Edit > Grammar > Check spelling automatically.
Opening a document in TextEdit keeps re-enabling the app-...
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Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide?
I've just done a clean install of Yosemite, and in practically all of my apps I'm noticing those red underlines whenever I've "misspelled" something (or, more accurately, used an unrecognized name, ...
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How to change the spelling language in OS X with AppleScript?
I often need to change the spelling language in OS X from English to Turkish and vice versa, how can I do it with an AppleScript?
Note: I have read this question already, but in there, the answer ...
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How to change the spell check language in Pages 5?
The solutions described here and here are no longer available in the current version.
I am editing a document in Romanian but every word gets spell-checked in English.
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How to disable Mac OS X's autocorrect but still show spelling suggestions?
I welcome popup spelling suggestions, but I dislike the OS replacing text as I type without any real confirmation from me.
I'm aware both behaviors can be enabled/disabled together as one option in ...
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How to improve spell check in OS X
When I write a letter my workflow is like this. I type sentence. Some words end up underlined red. I right click on the underlined words and select the correct spelling.
The problem is that the ...
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Fixing bad spelling suggestions
Is there any way in macOS to fix or improve spelling suggestions that are very obviously wrong, like this one?
Is there some setting somewhere that can be tweaked to make spellcheck less dumb/...
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HIgh Sierra spell checker can't be disabled
I have a Mac with High Sierra (10.13.6) and I am unable to disable the spell checker.
I've tried going to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text and unchecking all the boxes but the spell checker ...
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Is disabling spell check systemwide still possible in Sierra? [duplicate]
I wanted to comment my question directly in the thread Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide? , but I do not have enough reputation to comment, so I opened a new thread:
I just upgraded ...
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How can I have spell check for one language *but NOT* for another in El Capitain?
I want to have spell checking ON for Greek (or any other language you have) and OFF for English.
At the System Preferences (Keyboard -> Text) I have enabled Greek (where it says "Ελληνικά (iSquare)" ...
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Japanese system-wide spellchecker
I am looking for a relatively easy solution for a Japanese spellchecker (not a Japanese dictionary for the Dictionary app) in High Sierra. I would prefer a link to a downloadable spelling dictionary (...
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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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How does one use different languages in Pages headers and footers?
[EDIT] I'm afraid this language feature is gone in Pages 5.*
How does one use different languages in Pages headers and footers?
I don't need spell checking but language switching (for headers and ...
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How to use Sublime Text with the built-in Apple spellchecker
Question in title. Is it possible at all with Sublime Text 3?
Now I can download different spellcheck packages or use the built-in ST spellchecker. However, I would like to use the Mac OS spellchecker ...
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OS X Text Replacements sometimes not working?
This is a weird problem, I write a lot of different languages on my computer, and since my keyboard doesn't have all the keys in the world, I have made certain key-combinations that replaces them with ...
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How to completely, utterly, disable spell-check on OS X Yosemite?
With the kind of writing I do, 99 out of 100 spelling "errors" aren't errors at all. Spell correction is simply incredibly unhelpful for me. I hate the distracting red dotted underline that appears in ...
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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 ...
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Auto-correct in Mavericks for Romanian Dictionary
I installed a Romanian dictionary on Mavericks in two ways:
by using the cocoAspell and,
by copying the OpenOffice dictionary files {aff|dic} in the ~/Library/Spelling/.
The Good: In both the ...
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Finnish spell checker for Pages.app '09?
Can anyone tell me where I can find a Finnish spell checker for OS X Pages '09 as it is not available through Apple?
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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 dynamically manipulate the spellcheck dictionary?
I would like to have a way to dynamically add and remove words from the system-wide dictionary in Mountain Lion. The use-case is:
I'm working on a piece of fiction that has a lot of odd names in it ...
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Spell-check and autocorrect only working in English
I can't manage to get the in-line spell check or autocorrect to work in any apps. In particular this is frustrating with my e-mail, as this is the biggest part of my job and I frequently need to ...
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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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Spell-check doesn't work on words with dashes (Mail.app in Yosemite)
I just upgraded to Yosemite, and noticed that in Mail.app spell check (as you type) doesn't work properly if two words are connected by a dash (hyphen) and only the second one is misspelled. For ...
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How to manually set the language for Auto Correct?
How can I manually select the language of Auto Correct for a block of text in apps like Notes and Mail?
I want to write a text that contains both English and German sentences. I have found a solution ...
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