Auto complete/spell check trouble

How do I get the spell check function to stop telling me that my daughter's name is spelled wrong! The auto correct keeps trying to change it and it is making me crazy. Is there any way to get it to recognize her name?

hello, ok.. first of all, i havent figured out how to make the spell check function add words to it's system. of course you can make this stop by going to "Settings" ---> "General" ---> "Keyboard" from there you choose the settings on the spelling functions. So far, i've searched & there's no way you can make it recognize a name or anything. hope this helps

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The suggestion from Encrypted11 is for adding a keyboard shortcut, if that is what you want to do. If you want to add a custom word to the keyboard dictionary ....
The iPad Dictionary
The iPad has a dictionary built in. As you type, it compares what you've typed against the words in that dictionary. If it finds a partial match, it displays a suggestion just beneath what you have typed.
If you accept the suggestion by tapping the Space or full stop, great.
If you allow the 'mistake' to stand, the second time you type the same word and reject the correction, iPad adds the new word to its custom, dynamic dictionary. From now on, it will accept the new word and will even suggest it the next time you type something like it.
That is copied from here.
http://www.my-iguru.com/ipad/ipad-hints-tips/ipad-keyboard-tips-tricks.php

Please can someone tell me how to swtch off the auto correct spell check option?

Can someone please explain to me how to turn off the auto spell check option? the one when it auto corrects? thanks! im desperate!

I believe that you turn off that spelling feature in the individual program that you use. Go to the edit menu of the application being used and see if there is a spelling feature listed. If there isn't, it may be that this feature is an integral part of the application and is located in the preferences, and you'll find it there. This would need to be done for each program you want to use that is bothering you with auto spelling correction. I don't believe there's a general setting for autocorrect that works across programs.

No auto-complete, correct, or spell check

Just gettin started with my TouchPad, but I can't seem to get any typing functions to work. There is no spell checking, no auto-complete, and no auto-correct (e.g. "you" for "u"). I have enabled everything I can find. What am I missing? My software updated itself yesterday so I am hopefully running the latest, but still nothing.
Post relates to: HP TouchPad (WiFi)

When I open Text Assist options, then "edit user dictionary", there is a tab for shortcuts, which are essentially user-defined auto-corrections, like you for u, or I'm for im, etc. There were several already in there and I added my own. They don't work either.

Spell Checker errors & auto-correct gone mad

I have had a problem for awhile now with bad spell checking.
If I make a typo, the softeware learns the mispelled word - and edits properly spelled instances of the word to be wrong later.
("the softeware" - I don't know if its Apple's or a 3rd party's).
I am getting "Teh" errors, transpositions & complete case changes, for example words ending in "-ed" being changed
to "-ing" endings here & there. A few other recurring ones, as well.
Its acting like a keylogger associated with firmware in the darn keyboard!
I've run checks for spyware & keyloggers & they came up negative.
I can't tell if its in the core OS softeware, or being driven by a third party test drive.
I can't seem to shut off enough spell checking to solve the problem.
Example: the "e" in softeware above was an autocorrect, not what I typed & saw typed.
The corrections are more than "ie" & "ei" transpositions & sometimes involved letters across the keyboard.
Any ideas or solutions for this? Am I the only person with this problem?
(I tried to find a close enough topic, but they were either old & archived, or not really quite my issue).

How do you mean "don't know what software I'm using?"
If the phenomenon occurs across most apps that are word intensive, then it appears not to be tied to any one.
Something is recognizing a problem not there & "correcting" it, because I can see it happen & its not all due to operator error typos.
I gather there's predominantly one spell checker engine across most applications, not one for each, if the symptoms are broad. IF that can be pinned on a "spellcheck" function. It isn't strictly a spellcheck.
"Substitutions" yes is more accurate than calling it true spellchecking & I might be rmisrepresenting the phenomenon to call it that.
Whatever is causing it, is learning & auto-correcting words that were may or may not be wrong. 2 letter pairs is mostly what happens. Or a capitalization of the 2nd letter in a word, to match the first letter: "IT" paired at the beginning of a sentence is a common manifestation.
I can't find anything that could be left from an uninstalled test driven application.
Your pointing to "Language & Text" may be valuable. The "ie" & "ei" substitutions are fairly common & German was one of the language options turned on, along with French & Italian – although I'm not sure what that panel even controls. I'm removing all options except English.
I haven't seen a lot about this kind of thing on here, so I am assuming that its rare & likely something not part of the Apple suite of applications. I'm simply trying to narrow down what's going on.

How do I turn auto-correct off and still have a spell check?

How do I turn auto-correct off and still have a spell check?

I do not believe this.. you can not disable auto correct without disabling the spell checker.. I am struck dumb by this.. I recently bought a mac for the first time.. ive always used windows.. there are more thngs like this than i expected.. I actually find this so ignorant I am lost for words.. this auto correct is a nightmare for me.. and has already caused me a lot of trouble because I have sent emails where words have been changed and i didnt notice and I have unknowingly insulted people.. i use a regular spell checker quite often but apparently I simply have no choice with safari.. oh well I am going to have to find another browser then.. goodbye safari!.. I also use a lot of shortened words and names etc etc.. like for eg I used the shortened word for problems "probs" and it changes it to "probe" and then i go back and change it back to WHAT I WANT TO SAY and it changes it AGAIN!!!!
Does anyone else feel like this is yet another example of how, more and more, we are being treated like morons?
Ok I'll try to stop ranting.. the real point is it should be possible to have a spell checker without auto correct..

Hi, can someone please tell me why the spell check in pages doesn't work. I went to preferences and enabled this auto spell checker and have set the language to british english. But still it doesn't work while it works perfectly in TextEdit.

Hi, can someone please tell me why the spell check in pages doesn't work. I went to preferences and enabled this auto spell checker and have set the language to british english. But still it doesn't work while it works perfectly in TextEdit.

Inspector > Text > More > Language
Only applies to selected text, like making it a particular font.
It is not a setting that sticks. If you continue to paste in text from elsewhere particularly the Internet it will have a different or None language set to it. You need to select it and make it B.E.
Peter

Auto Spell Check Requested! Or just move the button, please.

Auto Spell Check Requested! Or just move the button, please.

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll make sure to pass it along.
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How do I restore my toolbar with spell-check,auto-fill, etc.

I have no toolbar. I write a blog and I cannot find spell-check, bold, underlining, etc. There is no auto-fill, etc. Nothing

The Google Toolbar "will not be supported on Firefox 5 and future versions." <br />
http://googletoolbarhelp.blogspot.com/2011/07/update-on-google-toolbar-for-firefox.html
http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=1342452&topic=15356%29
The Google Toolbar '''7.1.20110512W''' version does work pretty good in Firefox 5.0 by using the Compatibility Reporter extension. But not every feature works 100%.<br />
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/06/enable-google-toolbar-in-firefox-5.html

Lion auto spell check.

lion has an auto spell check all over the place. Since I move between three languages, and Lion defaults to English this is a major pain. Where are the settings for changing the language of the auto spell check? or alternatively, how do I shut it off?
It was irritating enough on the phone, now I have the same dam thing all over my Mac too!

Use this tutorial... http://itracki.com/dev/mac-tutorials/mac-tutorial-disable-spelling-correction-os -lion/
Open terminal
To disable
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool NO
To re-enable
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool YES

Auto check spell check error

I have a bad habit of typing THE as TEH, usually the auto spell check pick this up. Recently the auto spell check doesn't pick up the TEH spelling mistakes. This applies to all text programs, none of them detect this specific spelling error.
Any ideas how to reset the Auto Spell checker would be of great help.
Sincerely,
Steven

Thank you for your kind reply. No I am the only user of this system.
Auto correct spelling works in this forum, but there are no suggestions when right clicking on a misspelt word. The key issue seems to be worse with Facebook. I switched on spelling like you suggested previously, but recently it doesn't work even though the settings when I right click show that it is on.
I have also had issues with Safari as I did a trial of MacKeeper and this has caused some sites not to load in Safari - the only way around that was to use a proxy server.
Thank you for all your great help

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Hi, I want to know if I can add a Greek dictionary that will have the same features as the English Language has on Lion.
Why Apple didn't integrate such a simple thing. To make every user from different places in the world to have the convenience of Auto-Correction they have on iOS on OS X too. Greek Auto-Correction exist on iOS why not on Lion?

rioshorty wrote:
Hi, I want to know if I can add a Greek dictionary
Yes, see
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/06/extra-spell-checking-dictionaries-for.html
Nobody can tell you why Apple hasn't included some feature that you want, but you can ask them for it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Where is the auto spell checker?

Before Firefox v8 became available the "auto spell checker" was an add on to the Google tool bar which is no longer available for current versions of Firefox. If the Google tool bar were available then we could get the "auto spell checker". I guess the question is why isn't the Google toolbar available any more!!
I have Firefox v9 on my iMac and Firefox v7 on my MacBook the spell checker in question works on my MacBook but not my iMac.

Google has stopped supporting their Google toolbar extension with Firefox 4.0 being the last (barely supported).
http://googletoolbarhelp.blogspot.com/2011/07/update-on-google-toolbar-for-firefox.html
http://support.google.com/toolbar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=15356&answer=1342452
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Only the en-US (maybe fr) comes with a dictionary due to license reasons so you may need to install a dictionary if nothing is listed in right-click->Languages

Spell check / auto-correction on iPhone 4

How do I keep spell check on and turn off auto correction

Unfortunately you cant.
When you turn one off they both turn off.

Auto correct is making me look like an idiot. I have to go back and psychically spell check my documents now. Is there any way to disable it?

Auto correct on my desktop Mac is making me look like an idiot. After I type it's changing words into other words I never typed and it even pushes words together that I'd typed a space in between in order to create new words that I never typed which make absolutley no sense.
Now after I type a document I have to go back and psychically spell check my entire document the old fashioned way to make sure auto-correct isn't making me look like a clown who can't spell.
Is there any way to disable "auto correct" on the desktop MAC and still keep spell check running?
The amount of messages I've sent out with horribly misspselled words or errrors as a result is maddening.
HELP!!!
Running OSX 10.9.1

I had turned off auto-correct in the keyboard preferences, but in Mail all my spelling and grammer choices were grayed out. The key for me — as Kingoftypos points out — was "For Mail, open a new message/reply/forward. Then go to the Edit menu and scroll down to the Spelling/Grammar."
It would never have occurred to me to open a new message to be able to change the settings.
Thanks, King

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