Suggestion for Spell Check - add the word 'Texting' to the dictionary! XP

Just an interesting thing encountered with spell check on this site - it doesn't have the word 'Texting' in the dictionary! XP

You can click on the button "learn" in the spell check dialog box.

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Why does Apple charge for spell check while MS Word offers it for free?

I have been using MS Office for Mac until recently when I could not open PowerPoint files sent to me. I bought iWork '08 to remedy that and right after I installed it, Spell Catcher said my trial period was up and that I could buy it. Of course, I'm NOT going to buy it! I tried running a spell check in Pages but it did not pick up on all of my purposely misspelled words. Do I really have to PAY for spell checking? I am not impressed with iWork '08!
As a side note: Does anyone notice how difficult it is to get into Discussions recently? Is it beacause of iPhone traffic?

Spell Catcher is not something that is installed with iWork as far as I am aware, I have spell check built in to Pages and keynote and I have never seen any mention of "spell catcher"
This is the company that makes SpellCatcher: http://www.rainmakerinc.com/
They are not affiliated with Apple. In fact, No development has occurred since last year.

Spell Check and changing multiple instances of the same word

Hi, sorry if this has been brought up before.. I can't seem to find any reference, so here's my dilemma:
My main writing language in Pages is Spanish and when it comes time for me to run the spell check, I usually have to change the same word a lot, because of missing accents and such. (I'd rather concentrate on writing and not worry about whether it has the right accent). Does Pages have any way to automatically detect when a word has been corrected, and pass the correction to any other instance of that word? I have tried using Find and Replace, but its not perfect, changing perfectly spelled words to include any corrections because the words, I think, appear similar. Is there a trick within Pages to do this? Does anyone know if the new version of Pages includes such a feature? Apple's iWork website and presentations fail to mention it...
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I got it working, thanks es5f2000. I sat and thought about it and worked it out. (Pretty simple) Heres the code:
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Erroneous word suggested by spell checker. Not in user dictionary.

A word that is obviously spelled wrong is not recognised by the spell checker, and even suggested as a correction for a similar word.
— In my case, the word "perzeptueller" (German for "perceptual") gets the red wavy underline.
— "perzgptueller" is suggested as a correction, which obviously is wrong.
— "perzgptueller", when typed in, is accepted by the spell checker, which obviously is wrong.
The – misspelled – suggested word is not in my user dictionaries (~/Library/Spelling). Accordingly, I cannot "Unlearn Spelling" in the context menu.
An anomaly?

jv2112 is correct
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Abiword
First line in the installation section....
Last edited by doug piston (2013-02-13 15:17:29)

How to use multiple languages at the same time for spell checking?

I use two different languages all the time and words are mostly so different (English and Finnish) that I could have spell checking on for both languages at the same time.
Now it seem to allow to select only one language at the time and I have to switch back and fort zillion of times per day.

Thanks for the quick answer.
The Dictionary Switcher doesn't seem to work with Finnish language, it doesn't detect it at all to be one of the choices although in the Firefox context menu Languages -> Finnish/Finland is shown.
Also, if it would work, I would need to get rid of multiple EN_* langauges. I just need EN_UK or EN_US, not all 22 different EN_*.
One option would be to create a custom dictionary, which would have words from both languages. The next task is then to find out how to make this kind of custom ENFI-dictionary, which would have words from both English and Finnish languages.
Finnish may be a some kind of special case for spell checking anyway, because the support is in its separate plugin:
http://voikko.sourceforge.net/

Spell Check ignores added words

I have a long list of added words in LocalDictionary. (Spell Check really needs a medical dictionary.) Spell Check now ignores all added words and marks those words as misspelled. When I tell Spell Check to learn a previously added word it does so. The LocalDictionary is not updated when the word is learned. Thus, Spell Check knows that the word is in the LocalDictionary when it is told to add a word, but not when it is spell checking.
This happens in TextEdit, Stickies, StoryMill, and all applications that use Apple's Spell Check. I copied the text of LocalDictionary, trashed the original, and saved a clean copy--no help. I used Terminal to kill and restart Spell Checking--no help. Shutdown--no help. My next step would be reinstalling OS X, but I'd prefer not to do that time-consuming task. Any advice?

Welcome to our community, Dan
If you click File > Project Settings > General tab, what language is configured for the project?
Out of curiosity, how exactly did you check the dictionary to ensure the words were there?
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Trying to spell check email, I get this: "This language is no longer available for spell checking.

Firefox does automatically check my emails like it does when I use Word Perfect. When I select spell check, I get this message: "This language is no longer available for spell checking. Please check another in the spelling options box."
When I click on the spelling options box, I get the same message. I have never changed any settings as regards to spell checking

Which language is selected if you check that via the right-click context menu > Languages in a text area?
Is that dictionary still installed and enabled?
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Spell_checking
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries
* [[Using the spell checker]]
You can look here for dictionaries:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/

Quick change of language for spell check

Hi everyone, I am a translator and use three languages on my MacBook Air and swap from one to another 100+ times a day. It's a bit annoying to change the spell check using right click, going to the grammar section, searching for the language... Is there a faster way to do it? Any shortcut? Or maybe I can create one. I cannot find this information and I'd appreciate any help.

Agata_r wrote:
It's mainly Pages, Safari. I'm new Mac user so haven't instal any CAT software I was working on PC yet.
Nothing you can do in Safari as far as I know.
In Pages 4 you can tag any section of text by language using Character Styles activated by keyboard shortcut. Pages 5 is useless (unless you are writing in Arabic/Hebrew).
Aside from Pages 4 you should use Word or LibreOffice where I am pretty sure you can also easily tag text by language. For Word questions you need to go to
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Why does gmail spell check highlight partial words?

I recently received the latest version of Firefox for my Windows XP desktop computer. Since that time, when I type e-mails the spell check puts a wiggly red line under parts of a word. When I click to spell check the entire e-mail, parts of correctly spelled words are highlighted in yellow and the dictionary tries to provide spellings for these highlighted parts of each word. I have gone into Firefox options and unchecked the box for spell checking as I type. That did not help. What can I do to fix this problem?

Hi,
You can update Firefox via '''Help''' ('''Alt''' + '''H''') > '''About Firefox''', or from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/update/ Updating]
If you're using an add-on, you can try to '''Disable''' it in '''Tools''' ('''Alt''' + '''T''') > '''Add-ons''' > '''Extensions'''. Please note that Gmail has a spell check function, so if the problem persists, you may have to disable the Gmail spell check. The [https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/gmail Gmail support] would also be helpful.
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Using%20extensions%20with%20Firefox Using extensions]

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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I need language dictionnaries for spell checking/correcting. I have firefox nightly v.27.0a1. Should I keep this version and wait or go back to classic firefox?

The French and Arabic dictionaries seem to be not compatible with firefox nightly. I have the latest version: 27.0a1. Will updates be made in the coming future to fix that?
Many thanks by advance!
A loyal firefox user.

Do you confirm that I should download and use firefox "classic" version instead of nightly to be able to install the French / Arabic dictionary add-ons for spell checking/correcting when writing in the browser?

Dictionary for spell checking

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.
This method is actually better because then you could select some text in the document and set it to one language and select other text in the same document and set it to another language. Multiple languages in the same document and the spelling dictionaries take it all in stride. It is actually very useful.
Hope this helps.

Set language for spell check

iWeb marks all my Spanish text with red underlines. I see that when I click to check spelling it lets me change the dictionary to Spanish, but where can I set it to default to Spanish for this site?
I just found it works if I highlight the text and change the language input flag at the top of my screen, but a default for the site would be nice if there is one.
Message was edited by: richardlw

I;ll answer my own question. Whatever language I set the input flag to sets the spell check. Unfortunately it also changes the keyboard, so I have to guess at what is under the key. Note the ; instead of ´

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I send and receive emails with urls a lot and Mac Mail 2.0.5 spell check consistently asks for corrections to the urls. Is there some way to tell Mail not to spell check words with a /, @ or other symbols?
When I reply to someone elses email it allways tries to correct the orginal email also which I'd like to avoid.
Occasionally it catches words like "Thanks!!!" and I can't get rid of the spell check window untill I remove all the "!" symbols.
Any help appreciated!!!
Thanks,
DAN
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Duplicating a layer/folder adds the word "Copy" at the end - How to disable this?

Hello World,
Every time you duplicate a folder or a layer, it adds the word "Copy" at the end. Is there a way to get rid of this?
I've been looking for a solution to this for the past 2 years. I spend 8 hours a day in Photoshop creating Comps. I'm crazy about having my layers clean, therefore I use a lot of folders, etc.
I probably waste an hour a day removing the $%)?#* Copy word at the end of layers/folders. This is driving me CRAZY while losing a lot of precious time.
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I hate that too, I have my own system for saving and naming files
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