Adding words to spell check

I need help with adding words to my spell check just about every name I spell shows as spelt wrong. Can you add words to the iPhone dictionary?

Thank you I keep checking for a way, everytime I spell names even my own it shows that it is spelt wrong! That drives me crazy!

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How do i remove a word from spell check in OS X 10.4?

Hi all, I accidentally added a misspelled word to the spell check dictionary and i was wondering how to remove it.
I noticed there were already a few similar questions, but i could not get their solutions to work, as they were obviously using a new version of OS X.
So does anyone know how to remove a word from from spell check in OS x 10.4? or else how to reset the spell check?
Cheers.

OK, if you are talking about the Apple spell checker, do the following:
Open an application like TextEdit. Right click in the application window and you will get a popup. Select Spelling and then Spelling... to get a Spelling Dialog Box.
Type in the mis-spelled word in the text box and then click the Forget button. That should undo the mischief.

WGM: is it possible to disable Word 2008 spell check with WGM?

We have users that will use their macbooks to an exam where the teacher asks if htere is a possiblity to disable the spell check in Word.
Thanks for any help i can get ...
OSX server 10.5.6

Yes, this should be possible.
Applications store preferences in .plist files, which is basically all WGM does - controls plist files.
You'll want to first identify which attributes with com.microsoft.Word.plist you want to control via WGM (to disable spell check).
You may want to have Property List Editor installed (from developer tools - now on system administrator tools too) and open up /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist make a not of its settings. Then open word and change the settings necessary to turn off spell check. Then take a look at the plist file a minute afterward, you should notice some settings have changed. I think the setting may be "2008\Options\Options:AutoSpell", but you'll have to double-check.
Once you know the setting, make a note of it and what the value should be to disable spell check.
Now, open WGM and click a user, group, computer, or computer list object you want to control the spell check to. Click the preferences pane, then click 'DETAILS' (not Overview - which is default).
Now click the PLUS button and browse for the com.microsoft.word.plist from your home folder. You may want to select 'ALWAYS' instead of 'OFTEN' as well. Then click 'ADD'.
Once the plist is added to the list, double click it to edit it (you do not need property list editor for this part), and delete all of the attributes you do not need to control, you just want to leave the 1 or 2 attributes that toggle spell check to be off.
This should take care of it.

Word 2007 Spell check failure.

Hi, I'm having trouble with getting the spellcheck to work in word 2007.
All the settings are, indeed, correct. Everything is ticked like it should be for the spell check to work.
I've tried using it with different users and even in local administrator and I couldn't get it to work.
So I stayed in local admin and went to add remove programs and COULDN'T FIND OFFICE 07 IN THE LIST!
So I installed it and presto, after opening up a word document it worked beautifully.
BUT, As soon as I logged in the user that was experiencing the difficulty I had her open a word document and spellcheck ceased to function again.
I'm guessing this is not an issue with office 07 and more of an issue with either registry or maybe even the global profile.
Any input would be greatly appreciatted.
I am running out of ideas FAST.
Maybe even a nudge in the right direction would get me going.
One things for sure. I need help.
Thanks.

Hi,
Please try these steps:
1.       Go to: Word Options > Add-ins, click the drop down arrow next to Manage and select disabled items and check if there is any file listed over there with the name of spell or en-us. If yes, then enable it and check if the spell checker works fine or not?
2.       Also go to registry editor, and go to this location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools
And rename “Proofing Tools” to “Old Proofing Tools”
Close the registry editor and try to use the spell checker once again.
3.       If you are still facing the issue then try to repair office by going into control panel & then add/remove programs, click on Microsoft office and then click on change
Harpreet

Compared to Word, the spell check is very weak. Am I missing something?

I am attempting to switch from Word to Pages but I find the spell check is very weak. Am I missing something?

Barry
I sense a pressing urgency in Ken's request.
Peter

Any way to edit words in spell checker?

Since updating to ios5, my spell checker no longer recognizes my name when I type it in a message and tries to change it. Any way to edit the words in the spell checker list so that it will again recognize my name?

You can't edit the spell checked but you can press the little red x when it offers a suggestion. Do this a few times and it won't offer that any more. See p. 25 of the User Guide.

Microsoft Word 2011 Spell Checker Gone

I just installed Yosemite on our MacBook Pro and now spell check in Miscosoft Word 2011 does not work. It tells me that English Proofing Tools needs to be installed. No problems before Yosemite. Please help.

I just spent hours trying to figure this out myself...how do I solve this spellcheck issue...please help?!

Learning a new word with spell check

When I click on learn the machine beeps at me and won't learn. It is not greyed out. I have checked the dictionary location and both user and main are in the right place. I have got rid of the preferences file and restarted appleworks? Anyone got any ideas? is it possible for the user dictionnary to be full?

nicholas eve wrote:
I have got rid of the preferences file
AppleWorks 6 keeps a set of Preferences and Cache files for each User, not just a single preferences file. See *my post in this thread* for details on deleting the prefs.
is it possible for the user dictionary to be full?
The AppleWorks 6 User Dictionary will hold only about 6000 words, so filling it is certainly a possibility. I had thought the Learn button would be greyed when that occurred, though.
You can get a check on how many words there are in your User Dictionary pretty easily:
With a document open, go Edit > Writing Tools > Edit User Dictionary.
In the dialogue, click the disclosure triangle beside Text File, then click Export.
Choose a location for the file, then click Save.
Open a new WP file.
Go File > Insert...
Locate the User Dictionary Text Export file you just saved (it will be greyed).
Use the File Format popup menu to change to either Text or All Available.
Select and Open the file.
Go Edit > Writing tools > Word Count to get a count of how many entries there are in your User Dictionary.
Further steps: You might try creating a new User Dictionary.
Go Edit Z. Writing Tools > Select Dictionaries...
Click User Dictionary, then New.
Give the new dictionary a name ('User Dictionary 2' is fine), then Save.
If the new dictionary is not automatically selected as the Currently Selected Dictionary, Click Choose, and select it.
Close the dialogue.
Test the new dictionary's learning ability.
If all is well, you can fill the new dictionary with the contents of the old one.
The fastest way to do this is to Import the Text file you exported earlier (for the word count).
A slower way, but one that will show you any arising problems, is to spell check the AW document you used for the word count. The spell check should question every word on that list, giving you a chance to spot and drop words that you don't expect to use, or that are misspellings that were learned in error.
Regards,
Barry

Word 2010 spell check gets disabled after Windows Updates

Each time the computer receives updates, the proofing settings seem to revert to disabled. The settings getting reset are
- Check spelling as you type
- Mark grammar errors as you type
- Check grammar with spelling
I only notice the issue in Word and have tried running a repair on Office. Any help is appreciated

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Mac: When I click on a misspelled word in the body of an email the spell checker defaults to first word in the email even if it already spelled correctly

The spell checker identifies incorrect spelled words, however when I right click or control click the word the spell checker only highlights in yellow the first word in the email and gives a dialog with the spelling and definition even though that word already correctly spelled. This is version 33.1 on my mac desktop running 10.10. Spell checking works properly if I use Safari.

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'''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Start Firefox in Safe Mode]''' {web link}
While you are in safe mode;
Type '''about:preferences#advanced'''<Enter> in the address bar.
Under '''Advanced,''' Select '''General.'''
Look for and turn off '''Use Hardware Acceleration'''.
Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?
Then restart.

How Do I Get Spell Checker to Flag Words with Numbers?

Hi,
I cannot find any articles on this, so sorry if it's already been answered elsewhere.
I sometimes accidentally hit a number key when typing words like "you"--so that it becomes "y9ou". The Firefox built-in spell checker does not flag this as a misspelling.
In other programs there is a check box to allow this or not, but I cannot find one for Firefox. I do not use words with numbers very often, except something like W2, so I would prefer those get flagged instead of ones that are wrong like y9ou or w3ere that I make frequently.
Any help on this?
Thanks!
Don :)

Hi, Again,
Thanks for the info. And for a quick reply. ;-)
I checked my current cop0y of LibreOffice (I replaced OpenOffice.org with it several months ago). LibreOffice uses Hunspell as well. I had not checked the boxes to check words with numbers or all-caps as I had previously done in OpenOffice.org, so for all this time I have been thinking it would flag errors in those when it wasn't. Must have made LOTS of mistakes I didn't catch in that time. ;-(
In LibreOffice, go to Tools => Options => Languages => Writing Aids. You can choose to enable spelling and grammar checking (not sure what the grammar checker oes, since it was already enabled but I have never seen any evidence of it). The below that is a section of checkboxes where you can specify what is and is not flagged by the spell checker. I checked the words with numbers and capital letters choices. So now it will catch all the acronyms I haven't added to the spell checker dictionary.
I was looking for the same sort of choice in Firefox but didn't see it. Perhaps there is an API in Hnnspell the Firefox developers can use to add this choice as a checkbox, the way it is in LibreOffice.
I realize this may be perceived as a low priority, but I would certainly appreciate seeing it in a future update of Firefox. At least making this post helped me get the settings i wanted in my word processor.
Take care and God bless.
Don :)

How do you Spell Check w/ Word, Without using webutil?

In our v6 forms we were able to use MS Word's spell check, how can I do this with a 10g form without using webutil?

Jim, thanks for the update. Some of the recent version of Jinitiator have included bug fixes relating to proxies. (though I suppose Support has gone through this with you).
I don't want to confuse the issue here but while Oracle Forms 10g is only certified on certain JVMs etc, we did run some webutil specific certification tests on Sun JDK 1.4.2 and that was ok (but again please cross reference this the Forms client certification since this testing was just and aside for the webutil QA).
If you need this functionality I think it would be worth seeing if a bug can be identified in Jinit and seeing if we can fix that -you may have worked with Support on this already...but as I said, check with the latest Jinit anyway to make sure. (1.3.1.17 or 18 I think off the top of my head)
Thanks
Grant

Can you add a word or name to the spell checker in pages for iPad?

I'm looking for a way to add a word, alternate spelling or proper name to the spell checker for the newest version of pages for iPad so they won't keep showing up as "misspelled".
Can you help?

No, the ability to add a word to spell check dictionary is not a current feature.

Adding scientific terms to spell check

Hi. In terms of Maverick's Spell Check, is there a way to import a medical dictionary?
Thanks

OK. Let's take it very methodically.
I'm using OS X 10.7.3
You're posting in the Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard forum. (Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has its own separate forum.) Your original post indicates you are using "Mac OS X (10.6.4)".
couldn't find any folders or anything in the Spelling folder
First, you have three Spelling folders. I know Lion hides some stuff, so, because I'm not using Lion, I don't know if you see them all. They are
</System/Library/Spelling>
only stuff installed by Apple should go in here
</Library/Spelling>
here go spelling dics for all user accounts
<~/Library/Spelling>
here go your own spelling dics
LocalDictionary is a file in the latter folder. It may not have been created on your account. To create it, turn spell checking on, type in TextEdit a word the spell checker will flag as wrong, select it, and control-click (or right-click) on it. Choose "Learn Spelling" from the contextual menu. LocalDictionary will be created and the word entered in it. At least, that's what happens on Snow Leopard. I understand it's the same in Lion; maybe you should ask it in the Lion forum, to be quite sure.
TextEdit worked just fine until I tried to do this fix
I'm confused. What action did you actually take? You said you couldn't find the file -- so how did you try "to do this fix"?
now my TextEdit app is LOCKED...
What does that mean? TextEdit no longer responds to commands? If yes, have you tried force-quitting and restarting it?

Word Spell Checker

I am using Express 2.0 D0 and Forte 3.0 D0. I want to use Word's spell
checker for a field on a window that I am using for notes. Does anyone
have any suggestions on how I might implement such a task? Any help would
greatly be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Ken Ackimenko
Sentai Software Corporation - World Headquarters
(403)423-3113 Ext. 30
[email protected]
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You might want to ask in the forum for Word:
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