Unlearn a word?

My question exactly! My experience is the same. GRRRRR!

Also, the help mentions a "Guess" list. Although there is a list of possible words, it's not called a "Guess" list anywhere I can see. And I can't type anything there!

Anybody got a "Guess" here?

Thanks,

open the spelling dialogue
Edit>>spelling>spelling… (command shift:)

type your word into the box near bottom and click unlearn

The Forget & Guess seems to be MIA in Leopard.

thats a blow

I was about to ask the same thing, though not specifically about Pages. Your conversation prompted me to open TextEdit and try the spelling dialogue and though that didn't help, control-clicking the word in TextEdit gives the "Unlearn Spelling" option which is missing in other text fields (like this one).

Peter,

I tried out you method in Pages, and it didn't work. I was able to Learn the word with the contextual menu, but there was no option to Forget it.

-Dennis

For me, this whole thing started when I - mistakenly - told Pages to learn a mis-spelled word. It did, but I've since forgotten the word, so I can't type it in and tell it to forget, even if that worked. Worse, in trying to see if I could get it to forget, I taught it several really wrong words, like "suhervgdh", to try to get it to forget. I'm afraid even if you come up with a way to teach Pages to forget, my dictionary is still going to have a bunch of mis-spelled words in it, unless I can find a way to list all of it's words and go through and delete all of the 'suhervgdh's.

Any ideas? How hard would it be to delete and re-install the dictionary?


Dic

It's not a .plist, but the list of words learned/forgotten for English is :Library:Spelling:en and is shared with all other applications that use the built-in MacOS spellchecker.

Thanks for the answer, and please excuse a newbie question, but how do I actually see that list of 'learned/forgotten' words? Where do I type Library:Spelling:en? In the Finder? In Pages?

Again, thanks - this may be the answer I've been hoping for. Other than what happened to 'learn/forget' in Leopard, that is!

Hello

Library:Spelling:en

is the description of the way to reach a folder (the standard name is: pathname)

It means:
open your Home folder (the one whose icon is a house)
then open the folder named Library
then open the folder named Spelling



I apologize but in France "Library" is spelled "Bibliothèque" 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 22 novembre 2007 20:42:18)

Yes, that worked -- excellent. So there is a work-around until they fix this in Leopard.

I had to reboot for the dictionary to register the change, but deleting the wrongly learned word from the list on that "en" file did the trick.

Rhys

Message was edited by: CRhysB (added punctuation)

Thanks Peter for the TextEdit tip. This worked for me on Leopard.
Just open TextEdit, type in the offending work, select it, right click (or Ctrl-Click) and choose 'unlearn'.

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Message was edited by: CRhysB

Yes, that's actually a lot easier.

YES!

This worked for me. The problem I had was that I didn't know the misspelled word, so I couldn't type it in TextEdit!


As far as I'm concerned, this is an answered question, with high marks to the answerer!!

Thanks!