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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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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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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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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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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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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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cocoAspell successor? (Improved Spell Check for m1+, macOS 13+)
cocoAspell (git, last updated: 2016, deprecated) brought the unix package Aspell (a spellcheck dictionary for terminal editors) to the system-wide macOS spellcheck.
cocoAspell has since deprecated.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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