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I use an iMac osX. May of my clients' names are red-highlighted as if they are spelled incorrectly.
How do you taech the iMac to not flag a name or a word? I have tried to highlight the word, then I go up to "Edit" I rest the cursor on "spelling" I click "spelling" in the window that has three choices. From here I can click 1) ignore 2) guess 3) find next 4) correct 5) forget 6) learn. It seems no matter what I do, the next day I have to go through the same steps. Thanks in advance. |
I generally highlight the word, ctrl-click and select "Learn spelling" from the contextual menu (In MS Word, I think the menu option is "Add").
Does that not work for you? What program are you using? Best, darin |
Does anyone else find this thread's title funny?
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Not funny, but I didn't chack to see how to taech Mac to learn how to spell.
As dhayton said, you should be able to ctrl-click on the word and select "Learn Spelling", and yes, in Word the option is "Add" rather than "Learn Spelling". |
What version of word are you using? Word for Mac or Microsoft Word?
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There is no product named or otherwise known as "Word for Mac" aside from Microsoft's. Love it or hate it, it grew here first and invaded the PC-using world only afterwards. For a long long time, there was "Word" and there was "Word for Windows" :) Did you perhaps mean to ask whether the user was using Word for Windows under virtualization or BootCamp as opposed to using the Mac version? |
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:confused:Okay, so we can add words using the "learn" feature, but last month I mistakenly added a misspelled word to the dictionary. How do I get into the dictionary to edit that word out? There must be a way to open in TextEdit or something. To make matters worse, I can't remember what the incorrect word is. So, I'll need to sort all entries by date added. Is this possible? Anyone? |
Okay, for once using Mac Help was actually helpful. I found this entry about deleting misspelled words. |
Awesome, I just found a file in my user library folder which has only the words which I have added ("learned") to the spelling list. Even better it's viewable and editable in TextEdit. Now I can go in by hand and manipulate the list, perfect! |
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Thank you to all who responded. This has been a minor nuisance for the last 6 months.
ThreeBKK, I will try your suggestion on Monday. Do I first click on Finder, then will I see "users" as an option, or is there another step? I'm new to the mac world so pardon my naivete. Darin and Kate, I am addding to a database on my desktop that a co-worker has created. It is not the TextEdit, nor is it Word. I'll have to ask the DBA what exactly the database is based on. Mikey- Yes, the title was funny, in an embarassing sort of way. I meant "check" not "chack." Bye |
what's so funny about the word chack? :confused:
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Chack or Chac-Mool is the god of the rain at the Mayas and Toltèques. still not sure how that's funny though :confused: |
Oh well I found this:
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Chacksters,
The Database is built from File Maker Pro. I'm told that rather than use up memory to define client names, we will be using the memory for other things. Oh well, it was a minor peeve, and the assignment is winding down. |
Sounds like your employer may be copping out. Maybe they don't know how to use the software and rather than spending a bunch of time proving how little they know, they just say "that uses up too much memory". Oh well, if they don't figure it out now it's just going to be a recurring productivity problem that eats up valuable time and energy. |
ok...:confused: ...this thread just got even weirder :p ...is tvc's comment somehow related to this spellchecker stuff or did the chack word in this thread just come up in some search and so he decided to post his problem here? and what the heck does chack mean? :confused:
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Since it seems to need to be explained: The original poster intended to write "spell check feature" instead of "spell chack feature". The fact that a post asking about a spelling checker contained a prominent spelling error was what people considered funny. End of story. |
Oh ok...yeah sorry..I can be quite stupid sometimes... :( ...but thanks for explaining that, I see now that it's more of an irony than anything else :)
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See posts #4 and #5 of this other thread: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showth...threadid=10188 |
A radical expansion of Word’s spell check
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MS Word’s spell check is woefully inadequate. As a copywriter and translator, this is one of my great frustrations with this app. OK, what I would like to do is a bit more comprehensive: I would like to add every single word from the Oxford Dictionary to Word’s word list. (You know, the excellent free dictionary that ships with OSX.) Naturally, I have no desire to do this manually, one word at a time. Anyone have a brilliant solution as to how we can do that? (To put it another way: I want to use Oxford for my spell check, not the native MS Word list...) |
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