Spell Check Stopped Working in Pages

With the Pages app open, go to the menu bar, click Edit then check your spelling settings frrom the Edit drop down menu.

If you are referring to Pages v5, you must have the Edit ▸ Spelling and Grammar ▸ Check Spelling While Typing menu item enabled. If not, no spell check will occur, either automatically, or by a forced Show Spelling and Grammar menu item.

More accurately, though automatic spelling check will be disabled (red dotted underline) without Edit ▸ Spelling and Grammer ▸ Check Spelling While Typing selected, one can force a spelling check with either Check Document Now ( command-; ), or Show Spelling and Grammar ( command-: ).

The Check Document Now command will highlight the first misspelled word. You can right-click on this selected word, and the pop-up contextual menu will offer alternative spellings, ignore spelling, and learn spelling options. Alternatively, if you have Edit ▸ Substitutions ▸ Text Replacement enabled, you can simply click immediately behind the highlighted misspelling, and a horizontal list of spelling alternatives will pop up. Click on the one that you want, or the x to cancel without replacement.

Did you even read my post in this thread, and use those settings?

kadare wrote:

my PhD indicated "Show Spelling and Grammar"

might bear fruit activating the Spell Checker.

I think your PhD misled you. Look for an item elsewhere in the Edit menu which is called Check Spelling While Typing, or something similar, and make sure it is checked.

This is very weird. At first I had the same issue as kadare. Then I was testing your suggestion and voila: it worked. The command-: keystrokes did not catch the mistakes. And just when i read your suggestions - holy moses it worked. Thanks anyway.