Text Substitution NOT system-wide!

The text substitution functionality in 10.6 (changing "teh" into "the" etc. automatically) works like a charm in TextEdit but NOT in Mail, Pages, Numbers, Word etc. What am I missing? Pages and Numbers have their own section of text substitution (Preferences Menu - Auto Correction). Does one have to re-encode all the substitutions in these applications? Seems odd as this is presented in 10.6 as a system-wide service (System Preferences - Language and Text - Text)... Especially in Mail this saves a lot of time. Will have to revert to TextExpander... Anybody else bothered with this issue? Found a workaround?
Looking forward to your views!
Hendrik

It works fine in Mail. I've been using it for some time.
You have to turn it on, and there are no preferences for it like they are in TextEdit. Right click in the compose menu and enable it. It must be enabled separately for each application.
You can do the same for Safari as well, when you are entering text in a text box, right click and enable it.

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