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Spell check in Pages

When I try to spell check an entire document, when the first unrecognized word shows up, the word is highlighted but no popup box with corrections or learn/skip option appears. If I control click the word I do get suggestions (silly that this requires an extra step, would love to learn how to get past this unnecessary choice). However, once the word is either corrected or learned, spell check doesn't continue on to the next word. I have to begin the whole process all over again. Is there any way to streamline this so that Pages will do a spell check like every other spell check I've ever used? This seems to be a case of Apple reinventing the wheel and making it square. Either that or I'm doing something wrong (always a real possibility). I use autocorrect, but still, when drafting very long documents with a lot of words, I'd like to run a spell check at the end to make sure nothing has been missed. Thank you!!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 31, 2021 6:20 AM

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Posted on Dec 31, 2021 6:56 AM

No version of Pages uses artificial intelligence to automatically replace what you meant by certain word spelling or intent throughout the entire document. Hoping that you could just mash a button and all of the spelling anomalies would be automatically fixed is beyond the application's ability. If you use the word dawg to mean dog, Pages will not flag that as a spelling error. At least Pages v11.2 on macOS 11.6.2 did not.


In Pages, you have two interactive choices for spelling correction and learning. The interactive approach that you mentioned, or another interactive approach via a dialog that enables you to click on a list of words, or directly enter a change and then skip to the next transgression. This is the Edit menu > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar panel (⌘:). It is also best to not settle for Automatic by Language, but the explicit language for your locale (e.g. U.S. English, British English, etc.).

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Dec 31, 2021 6:56 AM in response to JDZeik

No version of Pages uses artificial intelligence to automatically replace what you meant by certain word spelling or intent throughout the entire document. Hoping that you could just mash a button and all of the spelling anomalies would be automatically fixed is beyond the application's ability. If you use the word dawg to mean dog, Pages will not flag that as a spelling error. At least Pages v11.2 on macOS 11.6.2 did not.


In Pages, you have two interactive choices for spelling correction and learning. The interactive approach that you mentioned, or another interactive approach via a dialog that enables you to click on a list of words, or directly enter a change and then skip to the next transgression. This is the Edit menu > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar panel (⌘:). It is also best to not settle for Automatic by Language, but the explicit language for your locale (e.g. U.S. English, British English, etc.).

Spell check in Pages

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