Mail and spelling correction

Is there a way to have Mail correct spelling automatically. Outlook for windows would autocorrect as you type. Is there a 3rd party app that allows for autocorrection in Mac OS X (10.5.1)?

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Hi. this is my first post here.
I've recently started using Pages as my main word program. I'm still learning how to use this program, and it has got quite some quirks of its own.
my question is: when i type "may", the program always capitalize it to 'May' where 'May' as month is not intended. The dictionary seems to be very basic. it does not recognize many common words that a program like Microsoft Word would.
I am wondering if you could tell me how to customize these spelling errors. I've already done many with Auto Correction feature in the Preferences.
thank you
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.10) iMac 20''

Beth,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
The issue of Pages insisting that may is the name of a month has come up a few times before. You can fix this specific problem by dinking inside Pages' AutoCorrect file. To edit this file, you need to open up Pages' package contents in the Finder. Command-click on Pages > select Show Package Contents from the menu. From there, navigate thusly: pages/contents/frameworks/sfwordprocessingframework/versions/A/resources/englis h.lproj/autocorrect.plist. Delete the entry for "May." "August" too.
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Hello I have a problem in app store itunes store and got the mail and the correct password but iCloud mail me wanting to write a letter and do not know how to put it and and I can not delete therefore

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How can I stop automatic spelling and grammar corrections?, Iwill send him another. Mail keeps removing the space after I

, Iwill send him another. Mail keeps removing the space after I

have opened the "Spelling and Grammar" -Ijust did it again and found 'correct spelling automatically' Ihave now turned it off. Ihope that fixes my problem. no, it has not , as you can see this email has the same problem.
Paul Morrow

Mail doesn't correct spelling

I'm running the latest Mavericks.
When I compose an email, misspelled words do not automatically correct (as they do in TextEdit and other apps).
I have gone into Mail Preferences:Composing and chosen "Check spelling as I type". It doesn't.
I've also gone into Mail's Edit menu:Spelling & Grammar:Check Spelling and and select "As I type". It will underline in red a misspelled word, but it won't correct it.
How do I get Auto-Correct to work in Mail?

Yes, I have those selections checked in Mail>Prefereces>Composing.
It seems to have nothing to do with Mail>Edit>Spelling and Grammer. The Automatically Correct Spelling is always greyed.
I've been putting up with this flaw in Mail for a few years, but my irritation with it hit some kind of a limit and I am now trying to find, if not a solution to the problem, at least a reason for it.
All I can tell you, again, is that the Mail>Spelling and Grammer>CORRECT SPELLING AUTOMATICALLY is greyed. (sorry about the capitals but I am still searching out how to add emphasis to what I write.)
It seems strange that I am the only Mac user to have this problem, but my search of Discussions found no one else who else who either experience it or cared to complain about it.
Thanks for being intested in my small problem. I am eager to see if you have found the source - not to mention the cure, for it.
Beth
Beth

Mail won't correct spelling

This question may have been posted before but I can find no trace of it. In Mail>Edit>Spelling and Grammer the Correct Spelling Automatically is greyed. The wretched app carefully points out spelling errors but will not correct them.
Am I missing something here?
Beth

Yes, I have those selections checked in Mail>Prefereces>Composing.
It seems to have nothing to do with Mail>Edit>Spelling and Grammer. The Automatically Correct Spelling is always greyed.
I've been putting up with this flaw in Mail for a few years, but my irritation with it hit some kind of a limit and I am now trying to find, if not a solution to the problem, at least a reason for it.
All I can tell you, again, is that the Mail>Spelling and Grammer>CORRECT SPELLING AUTOMATICALLY is greyed. (sorry about the capitals but I am still searching out how to add emphasis to what I write.)
It seems strange that I am the only Mac user to have this problem, but my search of Discussions found no one else who else who either experience it or cared to complain about it.
Thanks for being intested in my small problem. I am eager to see if you have found the source - not to mention the cure, for it.
Beth
Beth

Can't get mail to stop correcting spelling

This has changed recently. I have set Spellchecking in Mail > Preferences to Never but it still corrects what it thinks are mistakes as I press space after a word. For example, ppi (pixels per inch) is always changed to pip.
I know that CMND + ; will do a spell check (which is how I want Mail to work, manually). I have restarted my iMac, pulled the mains plug, waited for 20 seconds then restarted. No cure.
Should I delete Mail and re-install? If so, where do I get Mail?
This fault is making Mail unusable.

On the Text tab. Sorry, I should have mentioned that >_<
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How to change the spelling correction language in Mail

Hey!
Often I have to write emails in different languages and I'm looking for a solution to change the spelling language by a click. My plan was to record the procedure of changing the language and then to add for every language one button to the mail tool bar. First I tried to record an AppleScript in Mail. Didn't work at all (actually the only app I found which records scripts is Finder). Then I recorded a similar task in Finder which works fine and tried to adopt it to Mail. It didn't work out. Has someone an idea how I can solve that problem.
My simple training script what I tried to adopt for Mail (i just tried to change something in the Mail preferences, not the language):
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activate
select Finder window 1
open window of Finder preferences
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close window of Finder preferences
end tell
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Bastian

Hi
It's not that easy! Apart from the fact that Mail doesn't work the same way as Finder, it also doesn't have its own spell checker: it uses the system-wide AppleSpell service.
The pane you see when you manually change the preferred spelling language in Mail (or TextEdit, or Safari) doesn't belong to Mail at all, and isn't directly accessible by AppleScript because AppleSpell is an invisible and unscriptable process.
See this closed Apple Discussions thread for a brief indication of how you can change the preferred language using a shell script.
And see this macoshints thread for an indication of the complexity of the issue.
You need to know the "code" for each language used in the preferences file: "en_GB" for British English, "fr" for French etc etc. You would then need to wrap each shell script in an AppleScript "do shell script" command like this:
do shell script "defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' 'NSPreferredSpellServerLanguage' \"fr\""
to change the language to French.
Unfortunately, I think you would also need to quit Mail and relaunch it before the change will take effect.
HTH
H

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