Spell Check in Pages '08

[gauchogolfer]

oh...thanks for the info and the quick reply!
but to do all this is a little, tedious..isn't it?

I suppose it might be tedious, but I can't think of any alternative. How else do you tell it what to and what not to auto-correct? It can't read your mind, and I don't think I'd like it to work like the iPhone, since choosing not to accept the autocorrect would be more bothersome.

 

[colbec23]

Auto-correct still a fiddle

I've just started using pages after years of MS word and the autocorrect thing is one of the bits that still drives me nuts (it's been driving me nuts in Mail and Groupwise (at work) for years).

I don't want a programme to decide what to autocorrect, I want to tell it what to autocorrect as I go along and for it to remember. Adding manually to a list means you have to come out of the doc you are writing, go into prefs and type both the wrong and correct version into the list.

For all its faults, at least word lets you select a word and its correction to be autocorrected from FROM WITHIN THE SPELLCHECKER. This is just another option alongside the MS versions of ignore and learn, but makes it soooo easy - it's just a right click away. No more woudl, coudl, shoudl! Unlike most Office stuff, 'it just works'. I want it in pages.

BTW, I see teh is already in the default autocorrect list - wikipedia have an article on teh which is quite amusing.

 

[IJ Reilly]

I don't see how this is such a big deal. I find that the number of typing errors I make consistently is very small, and I'm not a very accurate typist. The key word here is "consistently." I make lots of typing errors but these are generally typographical -- and consequently, random. Auto-correct is not going to help me here at all, no matter how easy it is to add words to the list. In fact, with the exception of the notorious "teh" and fractions, I get little use out of auto-correct and generally leave it turned off, and don't even notice its absence.

 

[dtor]

Red Squiggle lines in Pages

There was a thread posted that had an answer on how to get the red squiggles back on to your pages documents by deleting a preference file called com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist, but I could not figure out how to go about deleting that file. The squiggles just diappeared after a short time...Please help!

 

[IJ Reilly]

Is "Spell Check as You Type" selected in the Edit menu?

 

[smilinmonki666]

I don't know if you've already solved this, but it has been bugging me for a while. Attached is an image of where the language selector is on Pages.

Hope it's helped?