Dictionary Errors

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Dictionary Errors

Ever since my Macbook Air made an auto update a week or so ago, my Dictionary hasn't been working well in Pages. It will mark things as spelled incorrectly, even when they are correct. And if it does catch a word that is actually spelled incorrectly, then it doesn't offer up any alternate suggestions. It also runs extremely slow when trying to look up the definition of a word. This is really crippling my workflow. Anyone else experiencing this, and/or have any suggestions on how I can fix it?

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 18, 2019 5:20 AM

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VikingOSX

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Jan 18, 2019 7:54 AM in response to samfrommelissa

What specific version of Pages, and the operating system that you are using would be helpful.

Pages : About Pages
menu : About This Mac

What I have seen is that recent releases of Pages will flag spelling and grammar issues with a red underline, and omit the alternate suggestions — if you have spelling correction set to Automatic by Language, rather than by your specific language (e.g. U.S. English, British English, etc.). Once you make this general to specific change, you will find that fewer correct words, and grammar usage are flagged, and when they are, alternate suggestions reappear on the secondary menu.

Places to change:

Edit menu : Spelling and Grammar : Show Spelling and Grammar (⌘-:)
1. Change Automatic by Language to your specific language (per the e.g. above)
2. Optionally, you can also Check grammar here too.
Pages : Preferences : Auto-Correction panel
1. Correct Spelling Automatically
  1. You can add a list of words that you deliberately want ignored here
System Preferences : Keyboard : Text
1. Change Spelling from Automatic by Language to the same setting as in item 1.1.
Edit menu : Spelling and Grammar
1. Choose the Check and Correct sub-menu items according to your need.

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