Autocorrect not work in Mail (but is fine everywhere else!)

Title says it all. The autocorrect feature does not work in Mac Mail. It's selected to correct as I type in the mail preferences. Autocorrect works fine in other apps (like text edit). In mail it just underlines it in red and nothing else.

It's a new 13 inch MBP (regular display).

I have reset the parameters when restarting the computer. I have also tried multiple settings in mail (and system wide) to fix this.

It's not my computer, so I don't want to have to reinstall Mountain Lion or have to start over with the mail app (unless it's very, very easy to do so, including not having to recreate all rules and smart folders).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

msjones said:

Do you have it set to "Never" under preferences in Mail? Take a look at the screenshot below:

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No, it's set to "As I Type" but it doesn't correct it as I type.

This is for my parents new MBP. I put the same setting on mine and it seems to work fine and correct it as I go.