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Open System Preferences on your Mac, click Keyboard, then click Text. (System Preferences is under the Apple menu at the top-left corner of your computer screen.) Choose Set Up from the Spelling pop-up menu. Do any of the following. A while ago, I lost all functionality of the OS X spell check service. To my knowledge, this was not tied to the installation or removal of any new application, and the problem is not limited to a single user account. In recent attempts to find the cause of this problem, I found that my.

Spell Check On Mac Word

Open System Preferences on your Mac, click Keyboard, then click Text. (System Preferences is under the Apple menu at the top-left corner of your computer screen.) Choose Set Up from the Spelling pop-up. Built-in OS X Spell Checker Best Grammar Checker Software for Mac OS Users Whether you work on writing an e-mail or a story, few experiences feel as embarrassing as grammar mistakes. Think of writing a research paper containing hundreds of pages in one go, or your first assignment.

[edit]Spellcheck and Writing Tools in NeoOffice

NeoOffice will correctly configure your preferences to use the language tools (spellcheck, thesaurus, etc.) for the language and region that are set as the defaults in the International pane of the System Preferences when you first launch NeoOffice, provided you have the appropriate writing tools installed.

NeoOffice 3.x will automatically use the native Mac OS X spelling dictionaries if they match the language of the text to be checked. See Issues with Locale Variants of Languages for more details.

However, if you add a word to the dictionary in NeoOffice, it will be added to your NeoOffice user dictionary, ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-3.0/user/wordbook/standard.dic (where ~ represents your home folder), not your Mac OS X user dictionary. See Exporting the Word List from a User Dictionary for information on syncing the contents of standard.dic to your Mac OS X user dictionary.

NeoOffice also ships with a very limited number of OpenOffice.org writing tools (spelling dictionary, thesaurus, hyphenation), with many of the dictionaries and thesauri formerly found in NeoOffice 2.x omitted; if your language is not supported by the Mac OS X spelling system nor by the OpenOffice.org dictionaries shipped in NeoOffice, see Adding Additional Dictionaries for information on installing writing tools for your language. (If you want to disable unnecessary writing tools, see Disabling Writing Tools for Unnecessary Languages.)

On Mac OS X 10.5 and above, NeoOffice also includes support for the Mac OS X grammar checker (which on 10.5 supports only US English and only a limited subset of English grammar, at that); this can be activated by opening the Tools menu, selecting the Add-Ons sub-menu, and choosing one of the options from the Check Grammar sub-menu.

[edit]Additional Information about Spellcheck and Writing Tools

• Adding Additional Dictionaries
  • Explains various methods of adding dictionaries that NeoOffice can use, as well as how to disable unused writing tools
• Selecting the Dictionary to be Used in a Document or Section
  • Explains how to make sure NeoOffice is using the correct dictionary and provides methods for automating the process
• Exporting the Word List from a User Dictionary
  • Explains how to get the contents out of the NeoOffice user dictionary
• Troubleshooting Spellcheck
  • Lists solutions to common problems with spell-checking
• Activating Dictionaries and Configuring Spellcheck in NeoOffice 2.x
  • Spellcheck-related instructions for NeoOffice 2.x
• Activating Dictionaries in NeoOffice 1.x
  • Spellcheck-related instructions for NeoOffice 1.x

[edit]Changing the language of the NeoOffice user interface

NeoOffice uses the topmost language in the list in the International pane of the System Preferences to determine the interface language. If you want the NeoOffice user interface (and in some cases the Help) to be in your native language, you must install the appropriate language pack separately.

For details on using an interface language other than the one specified in the System Preferences, consult Changing the Language of the User Interface.

How to use the built-in Mac OS X spell check in many applications like TextEdit, Mail and Safari. You can make it learn new words and reset your custom dictionary.

Check out MacMost Now 164: Spell Check in Mac OS X Applications at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

Video Transcript: Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now. Today lets take a look at how we can use the almost ubiquitous spell check, throughout many applications in Mac OS X. So back in the day, when you used a word processor, when you were done you would use the spell check function. And it would go through all the words in your document that it thought were spelled wrong. But things have gotten a lot better. Now it actually spell checks while you write. Even better than that, there is now spell check in the operating system, inside a Mac OS X Leopard, that will check spelling in all sorts of applications. Not just word processors. Lets take a look. So here we are inside of text edit. And I'm gonna type some text. Now, it's put a red line. Underneath this word here, I've accidentally typed a second T. And if I roll over it, it will tell me this word was not found in the spelling dictionary. I can control click on it, and it will actually give me spelling suggestions right here at the top, of what it thinks the word may be. In addition I can choose ignore spelling, or learn spelling. Choosing learn spelling will put it in my custom dictionary on my Mac, so it will remember the word for next time. I can also go ahead and look it up in the dictionary if I like. So let me try something else. I can see here, it's underlined MacMost. Now I want it to remember that this is in fact a fine word. So, instead of clicking one of these variations, I'm going to click learn spelling. And now it won't bother me ever again when I type the word MacMost. Now I have some other options as well. For instance, I can select the edit menu in text edit, and a lot of other applications, and see that there's a spelling and grammar sub-menu. I can show the spelling and grammar now, check the document now. Because sometimes the operating system gets a little behind if you're typing a lot of text, or you've just pasted a large block of text in. I can have it check spelling while I type, which is on my default. I can also have it check grammar. The grammar isn't as useful as the spelling, as it usually makes suggestions that aren't as helpful. But it can actually prevent you from typing something wrong that you didn't intend, because it will catch it as a grammar mistake. So it might be useful to have on if you have a lot of writing. Now this also works in a lot of other applications. For instance, here in mail, I am going to start a new document. And I am going to type something right here. And you can see it did the same thing here when I mistyped this word. And I get the same menu when I control click on it. It even works in the browser. For here at MacMost, if I want to go ahead and leave a comment, I can start typing. And you can see I forgot to put a space between is and A, and it has put a red line under it. And I can right click on it. And you get suggestions under spelling through the whole bit. So, it even works inside of web forms, which is very useful. So you really don't have any excuse to have a misspelling in a comment or blog post anymore. So we've see how you can add a word, using the learn menu option. But how do you remove one that you've accidentally added? Well, there's no good way. You can go to your user folder, library, and spelling, and see a different file for every language that you're using. So for instance, here is English. Double click on that and I'll see all the words I've added. But unfortunately there's hidden character between the words. So there's no real good way to edit this file in text edit. You can use a more advanced editor like Text Wrangler, or BBEdit, if you've downloaded and installed any of those. You can also edit in them terminal window using one of those terminal editing programs if you know how to use them. Otherwise, you can always just delete this file and start fresh. So there's a quick look at the built in spell check inside of Mac OS X. Just about any software supports this. So it's very easy for developers to incorporate this in their applications. So you can look for it just about everywhere. And the great thing is, if it learns a word like MacMost, you'll find that it knows that word in every application that you type in. Everyone in the United States have a great Thanksgiving. And remember, with every Thursday comes a new edition of the MacMost email newsletter. You can subscribe to it at MacMost dot com slash newsletter. I'll be putting one out tomorrow, even though it's Thanksgiving. So take a look. Till next time, this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.

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