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Thesaurus and word correction

What happened to the Thesaurus and word correcting abilities in Pages?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Jan 27, 2021 4:27 PM

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Posted on Jan 28, 2021 3:24 AM

You access the thesaurus using either a three-finger tap (needs to be configured in Trackpad preferences) or by the keyboard shortcut control+command+D — either by hovering your cursor over the word that you want to look up.


For these to work, you must have selected one of these in the Apple Dictionary Preferences in the order you wish to see them:

  1. Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (English variant)
  2. New Oxford American Dictionary (English variant)
  3. Oxford Dictionary of English (English UK)
  4. IEC 2 with appropriate Pronunciation selection


This is the left to right order that these dictionaries will appear in the dictionary application, and the top to bottom order that your trackpad or keyboard shortcut will display the results to you in a floating panel:






Pages Spelling and Grammar controls can be chosen from the appropriate Edit menu, or reference in the Pages for Mac User Guide. There is no Proof Reading feature.

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Jan 28, 2021 3:24 AM in response to em12r

You access the thesaurus using either a three-finger tap (needs to be configured in Trackpad preferences) or by the keyboard shortcut control+command+D — either by hovering your cursor over the word that you want to look up.


For these to work, you must have selected one of these in the Apple Dictionary Preferences in the order you wish to see them:

  1. Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (English variant)
  2. New Oxford American Dictionary (English variant)
  3. Oxford Dictionary of English (English UK)
  4. IEC 2 with appropriate Pronunciation selection


This is the left to right order that these dictionaries will appear in the dictionary application, and the top to bottom order that your trackpad or keyboard shortcut will display the results to you in a floating panel:






Pages Spelling and Grammar controls can be chosen from the appropriate Edit menu, or reference in the Pages for Mac User Guide. There is no Proof Reading feature.

Thesaurus and word correction

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