Bmartinak

Q: Pages 5.5 Spell check

Why doesn't the spell check in Pages 5.5 work at all?  Anyone else having this problem?

 

(God, I wish they'd bring back AppleWorks...)

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), Actually using Yosemite

Posted on Oct 26, 2014 9:51 AM

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  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 26, 2014 10:03 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Oct 26, 2014 10:03 AM in response to Bmartinak

    Could you elaborate on exactly what is not happening that should be happening, and give an example?  Also tell us what language you have set in Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar and what you have checked in that menu.

  • by Bmartinak,

    Bmartinak Bmartinak Oct 26, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Oct 26, 2014 6:05 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    With a document open, I open the "Check Spelling and Grammar" window, where I have "U.S. English" selected, and when I click on "Change" or "Find Next" buttons, nothing happens at all, even when I can plainly see misspelled words in my document.  This occurs whether or not the "Check..." window is in front, if I have any (or all) words in the document selected, or if the language selection is "Automatic by Language." In short, the damned thing just doesn't work at all.  I appreciate your response, and would love any advice you could offer.

     

    Regards,

    B

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 26, 2014 9:54 PM in response to Bmartinak
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    Oct 26, 2014 9:54 PM in response to Bmartinak

    Do you have Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Spelling while Typing checked?   Do mispelled words then get underlined in red?  Can you control click on an underlined word and see alternatives to repace it with?

  • by Bmartinak,

    Bmartinak Bmartinak Oct 27, 2014 4:38 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Oct 27, 2014 4:38 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    No, I do not have "Check Spelling while typing" checked for several reasons: first, as a teacher of history, many of the names I use are not in the Apple dictionary, and I get tired of having them underlined and incorrect alternatives suggested; second, because I never had it checked before and the spell check always worked; third. because spell-checking the document afterwards was always easier than control-clicking every underlined word. Is this another "improvement" from Apple, that I have to have the Word-like red underlining enabled in order to spell check my documents?

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 27, 2014 6:23 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Oct 27, 2014 6:23 AM in response to Bmartinak

    Thanks for the explanation.  So Check Spelling while Typing does work correctly for you at least?

     

    I don't know anything about the "afterwards" feature -- perhaps someone else can help with that.

  • by stracuzzi,

    stracuzzi stracuzzi Oct 30, 2014 11:27 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Oct 30, 2014 11:27 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    I'm having the exact same problem as you, Bmartinak, and don't use spelling corrections while I'm typing for very similar reasons.

     

    Using: MacBook Pro June 2011, Yosemite, Pages 5.5. Spellcheck stopped working after I installed Yosemite and upgraded to the new pages, so I presume it's a bug. Wondering if anyone has found a Terminal fix or some other workaround. And Tom Gewecke, your reference to the "afterwards feature" rather dates you and me (and maybe Bmartiniak)...  this "feature" is how things used to happen back in the day: we wrote something as correctly as possible the first time, and checked it for mistakes afterwards, then fixed them. Typewriter ribbon with white-out was an innovation. God I'm old. I just want to be able to write on a clean page and then hit a button to perform a spell check. How complicated is that?

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Oct 30, 2014 11:53 AM in response to stracuzzi
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    Oct 30, 2014 11:53 AM in response to stracuzzi

    stracuzzi wrote:

     

    God I'm old.

     

    Heck, I'm so old the whole idea of spelling errors is alien, we had to be able to do it perfectly to get out of 8th grade:-)

  • by Polly Peachum,

    Polly Peachum Polly Peachum Nov 4, 2014 6:43 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Nov 4, 2014 6:43 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    I'm having the same problem. I just want to check the document at the last stages of editing. And it won't let me! Any ideas, anyone? Thanks.

  • by Polly Peachum,

    Polly Peachum Polly Peachum Nov 4, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Nov 4, 2014 7:07 AM in response to Bmartinak

    Ok I've found a way to work round it. If you go to spelling, when you've finished your document, and tick Check Spelling While Typing, it will do it retrospectively.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Nov 4, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Nov 4, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Bmartinak

    In Pages v5.2.2 on Maverick, with no Spelling and Grammar submenu items checked, it will perform a Check Document Now and catch typos. In Pages v5.5, you must have Check Spelling with Typing submenu item selected, before the Show Spelling and Grammar, or Check Document Now menu items will work. The document can be completed, and then this setting enabled, rather than have it in your face as you write.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Nov 4, 2014 8:06 AM in response to VikingOSX
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    Nov 4, 2014 8:06 AM in response to VikingOSX

    With your mouse pointer over a correctly spelled word that is flagged otherwise — a two-finger tap on the Trackpad will allow you to select Learn, and start adding these words into a custom Pages dictionary. Future spell checks will ignore these “reserved” words in your text.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Nov 4, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Nov 4, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Sounds like the New York State Regents exams.

  • by Mark Strand,

    Mark Strand Mark Strand Nov 12, 2014 7:28 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Nov 12, 2014 7:28 AM in response to Bmartinak

    I am having precisely the same problem as all of you. It's frustrating, now that it appears Pages is a toy made from its former self. No plain black background when writing in full-screen mode, spell checker does not work, and more. Especially given that we had to pay for this 'upgraded' version, you would expect, at the least, that you would retain the features and functionality of what you unwillingly gave up.

    Thank you for the workaround, Polly! That was helpful. I have bookmarked this discussion to see whether a future version will regain the ability to perform spell check.

  • by Martin Wagenmann,

    Martin Wagenmann Martin Wagenmann Nov 20, 2014 7:56 AM in response to Bmartinak
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    Nov 20, 2014 7:56 AM in response to Bmartinak

    Spell checking no longer works for me under Yosemite 10.10.1 and Pages 5.5.1. The problem occurs on all my machines (MacBook Pro Retina, MB Air, iMac) with the same configurations. I use the German version. Have checked all possibilities in the submenus with no success. It does work in other apps so I suspect this is a Pages problem.

    ...Frustrating...

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