Spell check on Mail

suddenly when sending a new email whilst beginning to type i get message'could not contact spell checker'. i went to pref. and verified my settings but it did not help. so i restarted but to no avail.
how to fix?
thanx
safed

Hey,
Go to Settings > general > reset > Keyboard and dictionary
Do this and it clears the suggestions and yes they can be annoying
J

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Hi,
as far as I could see from other articles here and on other sites, there is no easy way to change the language for spell checking in Mail. It's difficult to imagine that this is true, as in this global world switching from one to another language in different mails is (at least for non-US/UK/etc. users) an immanent need.
Thanks for letting me know if I am mistaken.

Tom Gewecke wrote:
there is no easy way to change the language for spell checking in Mail.
If what you are asking about is some kind of shortcut to avoid using the Edit menu, you are correct that nothing like that exists for Mail (or other Apple apps). I think if you use something like SpellCatcher you can switch via a single keystroke.
The fastest method I know of is through AppleScript. I personally use "quick and dirty" routines for shifting from French to English and vice versa, both in Mail and Safari. Your typical toggle-switch bare-bones app looks like this:
tell application "Mail"
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
set frontmost to true
try
click menu item "Show Spelling and Grammar" of menu "Spelling and Grammar" of menu item "Spelling and Grammar" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
set fen to window "Spelling and Grammar"
click pop up button 1 of fen
set lemenu to menu 1 of pop up button 1 of fen
if selected of menu item "Français" of lemenu is true then
click menu item "British English" of lemenu
else
click menu item "Français" of lemenu
end if
click button 1 of fen
on error
beep 2
end try
end tell
end tell
end tell
Nothing fancy here! Compile it, keep it handy (in the dock for example), and a single click does the switch for you. You can make endless variations on this, even make it look kind of smart, with dialogs and all that, thus defeating the purpose.
AppleScript support is kind of sketchy so you have to use UI programming.
Cheers,
RTP

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I accidently got some miss spelled words learned into Spell check in Mail app. On Leopard.
What can I do to correct this problem. Is there away to reset the spell checker so that miss spelled words I learned into spell checker can be eliminated?

See this article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1650.html which among other things says "If you accidentally add a misspelled word to the dictionary, type the misspelling in the Spelling dialog, then click Forget."
What I found is if you highlighted the misspelled word control/right click on it and choose "Unlearn Spelling" from the menu.
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Ok. Not sure what I did - but I can now select "Show Spelling & Grammar.
However, when I now miss-spell a word, it gets underlined in red (check spelling as you type).
This where I need educating. I would have presumed that I could click the underlined word and be shown spelling suggestions (because I get this option in so many other software packages).
Secondly, is there a way of doing the following:
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I'm back. Still no luck getting spell check to work. With all the things I've tried, I'm sure it is now isolated to a operating system based problem. The spell check on InDesign works, but mac mail, text edit, and Open Office.org which all access the OS based spelling function don't work. Not only will they not do dynamic spelling, you can't highlight and tell any of these programs to check the spelling. That doesn't work either.
I am running 10.6.8 on an iMAC 27" that is three years old. I have kept up with my updates as they have come available, and my 3 year warranty just ran out in Nov. this year. I would like to figure out how to fix this without having to wipe the hard drive or anything else that is so radical it might take me days to restore all my functionality.
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Kathy, had same problem -- here is what I found just now by running tests:
Ok, what is going on is that the preferences for spelling and grammar in word and mail seem not to be working…..
in mail preferences there is no oportunity to set preference re spelling and grammar. I can't find it in apple preferences either
You have to do it manually --- so if mispelled words in EMAIL YOU GO TO EDIT, SPELLING AND GRAMMAR:
if you check grammar with spelling -- all you get is red underline.
if you CHECK check before sending nothing happens
If you check ----check spelling and grammar (which seems to be the default) nothing happens
BUT IF YOU CHECK show spelling and grammar, you get the red underline and correction box
IN WORD, there is spelling preferences --- i chose : check spelling as type, suggest corrections, check grammar with spelling.
IF I go back to check preferences, they are changed for example if i had chosen check spelling while typing, when i go back it is unchosen
So with a document----- (before going back to preferences) ,only mispelled words are underlined red. BUT if then you go to tools, spelling and grammar --- you get the box right away
i did this research before checking directions on web see http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6911
Which for me would take copying the article, double space, under key words AND THEN MAYBE i could understand it --
i have no idea if it correlates to actual testing above.

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If I were you, I'd probably do a little sleuthing first. If you go into System Preferences> Language & Text, does everything seem to be configured properly? Is English the top language under the "Language" tab? Under the "Text" tab, is "Spelling" toggled to "Automatic by Language"? If you misspell a word in Mail and press Command-; (the shortcut for Edit> Spelling and Grammar> Check Document Now), does anything happen?
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boksey wrote:
your suggestion is specific to Mail
Actually, any application that uses the basic text editing features of the OS will use the same spelling system. Pages seems to have its own spelling system that actually looks inferior (at least in my '08 version).
what if I am looking for Hungarian - a language not listed in the pop-up section.
You are going to have to do some research. There are a couple of options listed here: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/AddingAdditionalDictionaries
I have no idea if they will work.
A Google search suggests that Snow Leopard does have a Hungarian spell-check - but the question is - where?
I don't think so. The link above indicates that you may be able to add dictionaries, including one for Hungarian. The screenshots were old, so I'm not sure if it still works. It's all in Hungarian so that's all I can tell from the site.
And can it be used with Mail?
Yes. Once you get it installed into the OS spelling system, it will be available throughout the OS - except for those applications that have their own system.

Spell Check in Mail

I cannot get Mail to remember spellings. This is very inconvenient to have to individually re-spell words like "and" and "the" which I misspell 90% of the time. Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help, Barry. I can get it to "learn spelling" by right clicking, but that only puts new words in the dictionary. I guess there is no autocorrect function like in spellcheck for Word. (I am a terrible typer, so I have to go through and continually right click the same misspellings in every email I compose. I was hoping the program would perform an autocorrect as soon as I misspell a word that I have designated. Maybe a newer version of Mail does that, though I just got my Mac in November. Anyway, I am surprised the program isn't more sophisticated.
I appreciate your input, though!
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john

Spot on, Tom! Good that you mentioned the 2 parts to the solution, because when I only changed the spelling in Prefs/Language, etc. nothing took place. I needed to also go to Edit/Spelling etc. as you point out. Also, I shut down and re-booted to enable everything.
Thanks kindly,
john

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