Spell Check not working
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
David Robson wrote:
Check Spelling problem and work-around:
PROBLEM
A. Select Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling as you Type.
B. Open Inspector > Text > More; set Language to English.
C. Click back in the document text and watch the Language reset itself to None!
I had the same problem after importing documents from google docs. This fixed it!! Thanks Dave!
I had this exact same problem and your work around explanation was great and fixed it perfectly.
Thank you.
I am having the same problem when highlighting a word I can not get the dictionary to work. Deleting the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist as suggested did not fix the problem. Can someone help?
Any help would be very much appretiated.
Nice! This fix worked for me using Pages '09 4.1. Thanks, David.
One note: As my language was already set to English, after selecting all, I had to switch to another language (say, Deutsch) and then switch the setting back to English.
I had the same problem both importing from Google docs and importing from Word. In one case the language kept reverting to "none". In the other, in kept reverting to British English. This fix worked in both cases.
Click edit, scroll over spelling, and make sure check spelling as you type is has a check mark next to it. If it dosen't, click on check spelling as you type and the menu will go away. Then type a bunch of random letters to make sure it is working.
Charlie
Changing the language of the document to a language other than English and then putting it back to English solved this issue for me. What an easy solution. Thank you, Scott SF.
Rae.
You can't "change the language of the document". Language is a text attribute.
You can change the System Language in System Preferences and restart Pages.
Peter
Well excuse me for not using the correct terminology, but I did what ScottSF did: highlighted all the text in my file, went into the Inspector. Text-->More-->Language-->something other than English. My entire document became one giant red underline. I then repeated the exercise but selected English. Problem solved, no need to restart the app, play with plists, etc.
TravelingRae
Spell Check not working