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macOS Sierra - iMessage corrects me despite spellcheck is turned off
In Messages, go to Edit > Spelling and Grammar and make sure the items for automatic correction are UNchecked.
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How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?
For Word 365 on Mojave, Shift+F10 does the trick. If you have a Touch Bar on your MacBook Pro, you would need to press the Fn key to bring up the function keys.
As jakub.g pointed out, it looks like ...
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How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS!
to permanently and Globally [system wide] turn it OFF you have to do it via terminal, using defaults command
By "system wide" I mean: Will be turned-off for all applications, for the current ...
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How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS!
Go to system preferences, keyboard. Click on text tab and there is an option on that window to correct spelling automatically. Uncheck that box.
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OS X Ukrainian spellcheck
Get the .dic and .aff files from
https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries
And put them in $HOME/Library/Spelling
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macOS keyboard shortcut for correcting misspelled words?
You can't correct them in a single click, but you can make it start to go though them in bulk, correcting each on the way.
Cmd ⌘ : [which on a UK keyboard is actually Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ ; ] will ...
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How to change the spelling language in OS X with AppleScript?
The AppleScript code, below, employs UI Scripting and because a popup menu is involved, System Preferences will be made visible (activate) during the process. Had a popup menu not been involved, this ...
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Multilingual spell checking on Whatsapp Desktop is not working
I had the same issue with Spanish and English. I followed these instructions to change the language priority, putting Spanish over English, and the issue was resolved.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/21/...
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How can I change the language for automatic spelling correction?
Building on the other answers, in Ventura this is now located in
System Settings > Keyboard > Input Methods : Edit... > Automatic by Language > Set Up...
This can also be changed using ...
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Multilingual spell checking on Whatsapp Desktop is not working
Let me propose a simple workaround that worked perfectly for me.
Issue: my system language is US English and I want WhatsApp spellchecker in Portuguese.
I‘ve downloaded from https://github.com/brave/...
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macOS built-in spell checker performs badly - what can I do?
Actually, there is one.
This example is for US English.
First run these commands:
cd ~
curl -o en_US.dic https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wooorm/dictionaries/main/dictionaries/en/index.dic
curl -o ...
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Write in English using a foreign keyboard layout on iPad
With the keyboard connected, Go to settings/general/keyboard/hardware keyboard and for English tap over at the right edge. You will get a list of layouts to choose from. Instead of “automatic”, ...
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Locating the file in which a dictionary word is stored
Through a process of elimination, I have determined that the word is (erroneously) in the system wide spell checker.
The file isn't in your local spell check dictionary. This is easy to check - ...
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How to completely turn off spell check in macOS Big Sur
It seems to be limited to the Messages app (so likely a bug) and after a few times of quitting and restarting (interestingly one restart was not enough) it too seems to finally have learned the lesson....
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How do I add spellcheck / dictionaries in macos Sierra? Got .aff and .dic files
Put them in Home/Library/Spelling. To get to Home/Library, you hold down the option key while doing Finder > Go
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How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?
On my setup (external PC-style keyboard, Karabiner Elements, and single application I care about), I remapped a PC Menu key (Karabiner sees it as "application") to Keypad Numlock.
The application (...
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How to permanently turn off check spelling while typing in macOS!
If the accepted answer doesn't work, try this:
Right click anywhere in the document
Find "Spelling and Grammar"
Uncheck "Check Spelling While Typing", and optionally "Correct Spelling Automatically".
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Multilingual spell checking on Whatsapp Desktop is not working
Even two years later on MacOS 11.1 (Big Sur) I have the same issue. Mac OS spell checking for me is on 'Dutch' but Whatsapp keeps forcing spell checking to 'English'. Sloppy work by Facebook, more ...
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macOS built-in spell checker performs badly - what can I do?
There is a small application that runs in the background called popclip which has add-ons to check your spelling. Seems to work almost everywhere. It has many other add-ons to help you work. I've been ...
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How to get rid of spell checker on macOS Mojave?
TextEdit has yet a 3rd place where you might need to turn this off, TextEdit > Preferences > New Document > Options
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Stop autocorrect from autocorrecting a word even if I re-type it after it has been autocorrected
Right click to bring this menu and select Learn Spelling.
Alternatively, you could set up a text replacement in Keyboard Preferences.
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Stop autocorrect from autocorrecting a word even if I re-type it after it has been autocorrected
Short of Learn Spelling or Ignore Spelling, neither of which you seem to want in this case, the oS is not smart enough to recognize what you are trying to do
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Autocomplete in Chrome Browser, not sure if its Mac OS or Chrome
This is called "Text Replacements" and it's a function/feature of macOS.
This feature will work on any app that uses the Cocoa interface; so apps that use it like all native Apple Apps and ...
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Spellcheck stopped working in Monterey 12.1
I believe the issue is Grammarly.
It turns it off so it doesn’t clash with the systems spellcheck, however, doesn’t seem to reverse the change upon quitting, disabling or uninstalling
Open Terminal ...
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What words are stored in `~/Library/Spelling/en`?
The string en is the ISO 639-1 Code for English language text. Apple has frameworks to allow the same program to use different files for different locales (which is a combination of ISO 639-1 language ...
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How can I disable iOS from changing what I type into another, longer word without losing suggestions above the keyboard?
You can disable spellcheck and/or autocorrect in System Settings -> General -> Keyboard.
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Remove an automatic correction from the dictionary?
Yes, there is a workaround for this.
Navigate to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement
You can now add "munutes" as the phrase and shortcut.
This will ensure your spell check won't ...
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Spell check multiple languages at the same time, at the same input field?
The best you can do for apps that use the Apple facilities is to go to system preferences/keyboard/text/spelling/setup (at the bottom of the list) and check the boxes for only those languages you want ...
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Japanese system-wide spellchecker
If you have .dic and .aff files, just put them Library/Spelling or Home/Library/Spelling, making the folder if necessary. Apple's instructions are in the setup area of system prefs/keyboard/text/...
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