Spell Checker Issues

I am having an issue with spell checking on my MBP. Recently, a program has been opening anytime I compose a mail message. The program is called "Spell Catcher", and runs in background with no active window. Not sure where this program came from (info shows it was installed a year ago, and a trial license is expired). Problem is when I move the program to the trash, I keep getting error messages when a word is misspelled in Mail.
How do I set preferences for spell checking? Isn't spell checking "built in" to the OS? I have searched utilities and preferences, but I cannot find a settings for spell checking.
Thanks,

I cannot find a settings for spell checking.
system preferences/language & text/text/spelling
Plus in every app, Edit > Spelling and Grammar

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Can I tell my wife that upgrading to Pages 2.0 solve the spell check issues?
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What do people from non-english speaking countries do with OS X's limited dictionary.app?
I am specifically talking about the Croatian language (Hrvatska), although would be happy to hear from anybody from any country on how they solved the dictionary/spell check issue for their own language.
I am struggling to find a list of Apple Dictionary.app plugins or extra dictionaries to install.
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I have found a 3rd party solution called CocoAspell (free) but am having limited success with it.
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I'm surprised Apple have not gone to the trouble of building more dictionaries for Dictionary.app
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As a matter of fact I found the working Cro dictionary at the same ftp link you provide above shortly before you posted it. Nevertheless your great efforts are fully credited. Thanks for your excellent assistance!
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Good as CocoAspell is I feel Apple should already have integrated this functionality, together with downloadable dictionaries from their site, into OS X.
I was unable to get a working Cro dictionary, or Custom dictionary, working in Office 08 for Mac. Interstingly the windows veriosn of the product offers the full gamet of proofing and spelling tools for the Croatian language (and manay, many others).
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p.s. more downloadable non-English dictionaries for Dictionary.app too please!

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1. Make sure you are not typing in the signature area.
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Hello all,
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My questions are:
1- Will installing the 10.5.7 update resolve the issue?
2- Where can I find the system-wide dictionaries used for spell-checking by OS X?
3- Where can I download these dictionaries?
I hope a clean install is not required just to get one dictionary/spellcheck file back…
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How about when you set it to Deutsch?
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Bug? Mailto: in combination with Office 2013 Spell Checking.

Dear community,
For one of our sollutions we use the mailto protocol to send a hyperlink which users can use to automatically open a predefined new-email-window.
This works fine with Office Professional Plus 2010 [EN-US] (32bit) in combinatione with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2010 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit).
However, Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] (32bit), in combination with Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands (32bit), crashes whenever the spellingcheck is started.
The mailto-command we use to reproduce this problem is (enter command in Internet Explorer, open with Outlook):
mailto:[email protected]?subject=%20Actie%20vereist&body=%5b2103162%2f335159076094968874376260057075247208793%5d
During analyses we concluded:
- Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 1.2 (Full Scan) did not find any related issues.
- Spellchecker crashes while checking the text within the body.
- Uninstalling Microsoft Office Language Pack 2013 - Dutch/Nederlands solves the problem, but obviosly, we want to keep the Dutch spelling check functionality.
- Standard Englsh (U.S.) spellchecking functions without problems.
- This problem is reproducable on any computer running Office Professional Plus 2013 [EN-US] in combination with the Dutch (Nederlands) spelling check. Tried multiple hardware configurations (Intel based) and multiple OS's (Windows 7 Enterprise
(64bit), Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64bit), Windows 8.1 Pro (64bit). All with the same result.
Is there way to solve this issue, without loosing Outlook 2013 as client and Dutch Spelling Check capabilities?
Kind regards,
Leon Kandelaars.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reaction.
Q - Do you mean Outlook crashes when we click the Spelling & Grammar button under Review tab?
A - Yeah, if you try to edit the mail and have 'check spelling as you type' activated, it wil crash as well.
Q - If we copy the email body and paste it to a new email message, will this issue continue?
Does this issue happen with other Office 2013 programs? Please try to use 'spell check' in word and check if the same issue occurs.
A - If you copy the generated body to a new email or Word 2013, the spelling check will in both cases crash the application.
Q - In addition, we can also have a look at the event log to see if we can find anything useful.
A - The crash generates an "Application" "Hang error". I've generated 2 (1 with Outlook, 1 with Word):
Generated mail, spellcheck crashes Outlook:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:52:31
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program OUTLOOK.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 87c
Start Time: 01d05b0effb4e6f8
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE
Report Id: bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:52:31.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14242</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
 <Security />
</System>
<EventData>
 <Data>OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>87c</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0effb4e6f8</Data>
 <Data>0</Data>
 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OUTLOOK.EXE</Data>
 <Data>bf3cde85-c702-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Copied body to Word, spellcheck crashes Word:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 10-3-2015 9:57:15
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl
Description:
The program WINWORD.EXE version 15.0.4693.1000 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 964
Start Time: 01d05b0fe8e683af
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE
Report Id: 6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
 <Provider Name="Application Hang" />
 <EventID Qualifiers="0">1002</EventID>
 <Level>2</Level>
 <Task>101</Task>
 <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-10T08:57:15.000000000Z" />
 <EventRecordID>14247</EventRecordID>
 <Channel>Application</Channel>
 <Computer>xxxx.xxxx.xxx.nl</Computer>
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<EventData>
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 <Data>15.0.4693.1000</Data>
 <Data>964</Data>
 <Data>01d05b0fe8e683af</Data>
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 <Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE</Data>
 <Data>6a7dd15f-c703-11e4-a8c6-485ab6f00dbb</Data>
 <Binary>55006E006B006E006F0077006E0000000000</Binary>
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