Pages - why no spell check/grammar icon?

I'm a writer. I want to like Pages. It's very clean-looking. But simple things like not being able to click on a spell check or grammar check icon really irritates. Why do I have to go up to Edit, then down to Spelling & Grammar, then click again...
What a faff.
Yes, I can do the shortcut keystroke. But what about giving the option of a spellcheck icon here, Apple?
Adrian, London

Well, yours must be a rhetorical question because no one here works for Apple, or understands the decisions made by the Pages design/engineering team. The closest you will get to avoid menu navigation for spelling and grammar check are the built-in keyboard shortcuts:
Show Spelling and Grammar - command + :
Check Document Now - command + ;
You can communicate directly with the Pages team via feedback, but do not reserve great expectations. Throngs of frustrated users have been using this Pages feedback mechanism with nothing to show for it in the last twelve months (Pages v5).

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Spring Step Creative wrote:
Peter,
I'm familiar with the workaround. Trouble is when you place or paste
your text in later, you have to remember to take it off of "no
language" or it will continue to ignore the text. We're dealing with
editors here, with very quick turnarounds, and the whole idea is not
to make a mistake. Just think how easy it would be to forget to turn
off "no language", run a spell check and think you're good to go to
press. ... and don't say InCopy has the solution, because its not a
useful product for us; it's cumbersome and doesn't serve us well at
all. I really think adding functionality that would allow you to
simply filter out the master pages in a spell check would be an
excellent help.
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HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Hi,
why can't I change the dictionary that Pages uses for spell checking as I can in any other application?
Best Regards,
Michael

Dear Foretcalme,
I was reading your post and looked for the pull-down menu you mentioned for changing the language of the text. At first I had the same problem you had, I would change it from one language to another and it would switch back when I went back to the document. Then I realized that you need to select text in your document and THEN change the language. Think of it like bold. You have to bold text. If you just bold where the cursor is, nothing gets bolded. I hope that makes sense. When I did that all the red marks went away and it was able to correct spelling in the correct language.
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