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Which application are you using? TextEdit? Which auto-punctuation settings aren't working?

Clinton

Since you are using a Real computer and not a Phone or Pad I doubt you will find the same feature set on a computer that are on most of the other devices that don't have a Built in Keyboard.

So I doubt there are the same type settings, especially for Auto Punctuation. Most people using a Real computer that does have a keyboard would not want that feature as they are use to punctuating their letters, emails, spreadsheets themselves.

What little autocorrection and punctuation the OS offers can be summarized by the System Preferences / Language & Text / Text tab, in conjuction with the Language tab next to it that sets the language order priorities.

Apple apps will heed & respect what you set here. But apps from other makers usually don't. I really HATE the way MS Office's Word munges up the text inserting stupid and inappropriate word substitutions or spelling corrections dragged out of a totally obsolete dictionary, for example.

Now I LIKE the spelling auto-corrections in Word... it easily catches all of my "teh"'s with "the"'s... my fingers jump a little too fast to easily catch that. I also wish that there were a incorrect spelling display on this board like on others... I hate to run the spell checker here and I wind up with misspelled words making me look like and idiot... and I'm for ANYTHING that can make me look a little less idiotic!

Clinton

Lucky you, the English dictionary is semi-decent. The Spanish one...

BTW, try typing File://// on your ML Mac. Supposed to make the OS crash & burn.

Not in Word... wait a sec... yep - crashes TextEdit! No other apps affected, though...

Clinton

Courcoul wrote:

Apple apps will heed & respect what you set here.

I think for Pages you may need to do it separately via its own preferences.