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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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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 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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OS X Ukrainian spellcheck
I did some research and still have trouble to find any way to enable Ukrainian language spell check in OS X.
Please advise how to make it happen.
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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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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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Where can I see all the learned/ignored spelling in Pages 5.5?
I've added some words that are not in the standard Apple dictionary in Pages 5.5 via the 'learn'/'ignore spelling' function.
Is there any way where I can see a comprehensive list of the words that I ...
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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 add word to iOS text correction dictionary? Learn Spelling / Hide Red Squiggly Line
I will often type a brand name or other word that the iOS text correction dictionary thinks is a typo or misspelled.
This adds a red squiggly line under the offending word. Screenshot from Apple iOS ...
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How do I add spellcheck / dictionaries in macos Sierra? Got .aff and .dic files
I'm specifically trying to install system-wide support for Bulgarian. Tried looking for library/spelling but seems to be missing in macos Sierra. Got .aff and .dic files but... now what? Thank you.
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How to change language of an existing Pages for iCloud document?
I have document that was created in Pages for Mac with the correct spelling/language (not English) settings for each paragraph. However, when I now try to edit this document using Pages for iCloud the ...
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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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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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How do I add Bulgarian spell check to MacBook M1 macOS Monterey?
I remember getting it to work somehow on my old MacBook but no such luck so far on this time around. I know I need .aff and/or .dic files but where do I get those?
Also when I add this to my MacBook, ...
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'LocalLibrary' file
I'm looking to add a large number of words to my spell checker lexicon. I've been told to go to Library > Spelling > LocalLibrary, but there is no such file in my Spelling folder (or anywhere else on ...
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Hotkey switching between spelling dictionaries
I'm often using 4 languages for writing texts. Now, each time switching languages with:
⌘+:
and changing the language in the popup
Is possible somewhat /applescript, shell-script, anyhow :)/ ...
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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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Display formatting symbols (invisible characters) on webpages and text forms
I am using various online tools for translation and proofreading, and I find that it would be very interesting to be able to display the most common formatting symbols in a browser.
(Spaces and non-...
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