Turning off AutoCorrect in Lion

When I go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Correct Spelling Automatically, and turn it off, nothing happens. Lion still suggests words and changes words automatically. Is this the right setting or is it located somewhere else in the system?

That is the correct setting, but it will not take effect with any running applications. You have to quit the application(s) and relaunch and then the autocorrect will be gone.

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