STOP CORRECTING ME!!!

Hi parker612,

I appreciate your answers and time, but I am one of the most frustrated people on earth right about now.

I have done Exactly what you said and the "correct spelling automatically" is unchecked.

The problem is I am in a country other than the US, so English is not my first or only language.

When I type for example in Afrikaans my home language it still changes alot of my text even though the "correct spelling automatically" is not turned on.

Ex. If I type "om stil te kan raak" witch translates to "to fall silent" it changes the above "stil te" to -> "stilt e" whitch isn't a word in afrikaans.

This is only one of hundreds of examples,

This means if I communicate with someone on from a mac it looks like I am a idiot and cant spell.

Please if you have any sort of solutions please come back to me!

Thank you

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Did you try the suggestion from 24 Mar 2013 where you told it to Learn a word?

Thanx wil definitly post on a newer discussion, thanx for the tip. I tried to learn it the words but there is to many at least one per sentence and this took to long and I thought since I pay top dollar for a premium product that is suppost to help me why should I struggle so much.

But I called one of my friends who is a "mac professional" and got a solotion.

On "word" I had to click on the thing it changed and then click on "autocorrect options", then I had to uncheck "replace text as you type" box

On pages I had to click on the edit button, go to spelling and grammar, then uncheck "correct spelling automatically" This was the same for safari messenger and most of the apple softawe.

Even though I unchecked it at the system prefrences "text", I had to to the above mentiond for every app I wanted to type in.

You, parker612, are my hero. I have tried every solution I could find online for months. My computer would seemingly learn a new spelling, but then revert back in a day or two and start automatically correcting the word again. Weird.

I didn't want to turn off Check Spelling Automatically completely because it's very helpful 95% of the time. But I have common words that my clients use for business that have an unusual spelling. I was having to "correct the corrections" on a daily -- or hourly -- basis. Sometimes I didn't catch them until it was too late. Embarrassing.

This seems like such a simple and logical solution. Why, oh why, isn't it in the Help menu????

The turning point was when you explained how to get to the window that had the Learn button! I can't thank you enough.

One small wrinkle. I've discovered that every time I shut down my MBP, I have to teach my computer to "Learn" those spellings again or it starts autocorrecting those same, troublesome words.

I don't restart that often, so I can live with this minor inconvenience. But if anyone knows of a permanent solution, I hope you'll pass it along.

Calm down, here's the simply solution to fix that problem on your iMac:

Launch System Preferences, click on “Language & Text”

Click on the “Text” tab and uncheck the box next to “Correct spelling automatically”

Safari > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck Correct Spelling Automatically

Same drill for Mail.

So you have "Correct spelling automatically" unchecked, correct? What application are you using where it corrects your spelling?

In Safari you can go to the Edit dropdown menu, the deselect the following:

Okay, well I showed you how to disable the autocorrect in Safari, here's how to do it in Mail:

Change the drop down "Check spelling" from "as I type" to "when I send" or "never."

Something is not right, at least for me and it may be the problem the OP has. Here is a screen shot of Safari. You'll notice the option to uncheck Spelling automatically is greyed out. It remains greyed out even if I uncheck 'Check Spelling While Typing'.

In Safari, that option only appears when you are typing something. For example, it is greyed out when I am looking at a webpage, but when I type this post it is not greyed out and I can uncheck it; or if you can select this when you click to type in a website's address.

Thank you. You just taught me something I did't know.