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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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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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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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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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Can't enable spell checker option in Xcode
Option is greyed out and I cannot enable spell checking in Xcode
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Multilingual spell checking on Whatsapp Desktop is not working
Multilingual spell checking (French and English) is working very well generally on my mac OS install. I set it up correctly following these recommendations.
However, there seems to be something ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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What file contains user typed words (user dictionary)?
iOS tracks everything you type and uses those words to suggest spelling corrections. This list of words used to be a clear text list buried in /private or /System (I don't remember where, which is my ...
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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 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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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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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 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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What is the difference between "Learn" and "Ignore" in spell checkers
When right-clicking a word in Pages and Sublime Text, the user is offered to either "Learn" or "Ignore" the word.
What is the difference between learning and ignoring? To me it would seem the same, ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Copying iOS autocorrect custom dictionary among devices
Is it possible to create a file of autocorrect entries for iOS devices and deploy it to all my company iPads (8 of them right now)? There are about 150 autocorrect entries that we'd like to setup on ...
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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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AppleSpell error: Contacts change history truncated, resetting!
My macOS High Sierra system is increasingly slowing to a crawl and having huge spikes in CPU usage, notably in Messages, but even when it not running.
The logs that seem to be most closely associated ...
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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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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 prevent Pages from hyphenating a specific word?
I have read Wrap words in Pages but my question is different. How do I prevent a specific word from being hyphenated (because Pages is wrong - "IS-P:er" (!!))?
I have a vague memory that ...
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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 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 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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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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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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On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct?
On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? I just want the red line to appear on words. But autocorrect is terrible and ruins most everything I say. So I just want spell ...
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Sound on Spelling Error [duplicate]
I am trying to find a way to get spell checking to play a sound when an error is detected. I don’t mean when an error is “corrected”, but just when one is detected.
A long time ago, you would add a ...
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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 I'...
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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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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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Write in English using a foreign keyboard layout on iPad
As a bilingual user, this is something that have frustrated me for a while now.
The OS defaults to changing the keyboard layout along with the input language. However, physical keys don’t move around ...
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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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