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STOP CORRECTING ME!!!

This is annoying, it happens in both Mail and Safari, I type in text and my Mac keeps INSISTING on replacing the text with what it thinks isbetter, it insists on changing my ORD to ODD, no matter how many times I change it to ORD, still ODD....

Hey, Apple, PUHLEEEZE, I wanna fly toORD, Chicago, IL, USA, not to ODD which is in some weird place calledOodnadatta, somewhere in the Tundra of central Australia.......

Is there a way to tell my Mac to be a bit more humble and polite, less insisting it's always right? Correcting my typos, great, please, keep up the good job, but hey, I wanna fly to Chicago, not to some Oodnadattaplace, where I'd be probably eaten by the local cannibals, all because of YOU !!!!!!!........

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2.9 GHz, 27" 8 GB Ram

Posted on Mar 24, 2013 12:13 PM

31 replies

parker612

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Mar 24, 2013 12:59 PM in response to Eric Root

You're welcome. Glad I could help 🙂

Mar 24, 2013 1:00 PM in response to parker612

...Actually, refering to what parker612 said above, when I opened this window to reply, the "Correct Spellong Automatically" was not grayed out BUT STILL CHECKED.... I had to uncheck it....

But the problem is, the alternative to being obnoxious and keep changing what I type -- IS NOT DOING ANY SPELL-CHECK AT ALL.... This is not right, all -- or nothing... I don't like this kind of approach, dear Apple.

Mar 24, 2013 1:03 PM in response to mynameismyname

mynameismyname wrote:

I don't like this kind of approach, dear Apple.

voice your displeasure to Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

parker612

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Mar 24, 2013 1:10 PM in response to mynameismyname

If select "Show Spelling and Grammar"

You can choose to learn the spelling of words so it will not correct you in the future, just select "Learn."

The reason your text is being corrected in the first place is because the word you are trying to type is not in the dictionary, or being read by Apple as a valid word.

Mar 24, 2013 1:10 PM in response to parker612

Yes, I'm aware of that and I do use it for like names. Still, to me it seems like we're going BACKWARDS here. In the past Apple was humble enough to make a note of something I type wrong, let me check it myself, now it's "my way, or else...."

parker612

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Mar 24, 2013 1:13 PM in response to mynameismyname

Well if you have "Correct Spelling Automatically" deselected all your applications and in the System Preferences, it will not correct your typo and instead just show you that it is wrong by underlining it with a red line.

Mar 24, 2013 2:36 PM in response to parker612

Yes, that's now making me happy with Mail.

However, here, typing this text in Safari, after selecting Edit>Spelling and Grammar>Check Spelling While Typing --- Safari would nott showw anny indiccation that I amm making anny typose....

Mar 24, 2013 2:39 PM in response to mynameismyname

...Not even after I went back to my Syst. Prefs. and selected again the "Correct Spelling Automatically"... Safari stil does nott showw me any typoess I am makking.

parker612

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Mar 24, 2013 2:40 PM in response to mynameismyname

I think that is just a problem with this website. My Mac dones't correct me or show a red line when I type this text on here either, but when I go to another websites forum, a red line does show up. So I think it's just an issue with this forum.

Mar 24, 2013 2:58 PM in response to parker612

You might be right, parker.

parker612

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Mar 24, 2013 3:00 PM in response to mynameismyname

Yeah, I'm not sure why but that is at least what I have found. The red underline works fine when I'm not on this forum.

Mar 24, 2013 3:02 PM in response to parker612

We shoud dumpp thiss site and goe elsevere....

Mar 24, 2013 4:27 PM in response to mynameismyname

mynameismyname wrote:

...., now it's "my way, or else...."

That's basically the way Apple is going. Look for something else to believe in.

Eric Root

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Mar 24, 2013 5:37 PM in response to Tom in London

The site will check spelling, but you have to click the green arrow with abc above it. See 2nd screen shot.

Barney-15E

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Mar 24, 2013 6:00 PM in response to mynameismyname

mynameismyname wrote:

Yes, that's now making me happy with Mail.

However, here, typing this text in Safari, after selecting Edit>Spelling and Grammar>Check Spelling While Typing --- Safari would nott showw anny indiccation that I amm making anny typose....

The reply boxes are not real text fields, they are Jive javascript widgets of some sort, so Safari's spell checking isn't active. You must use the spell checker provided by the site.

And, I see Eric has posted essentially the same thing.

STOP CORRECTING ME!!!