Pages autocorrects with wrong spelling

mamaisheather wrote:

I had a similar problem and figured out to go to settings > general > reset > keyboard dictionary.

You seem to be talking about an ipad/iphone. This forum is for Pages on the Mac, which doesn't have those options. For the iOS version of Pages, you need to use

iWork for iOS

Thanks Barry- I'll try although it feels like shouting down a well.

Or maybe I'm supposed to just click, press, slide, tap or lick every pixel on every screen just to see if it does something, ala iOS.

Naw, that's crazy talk.

OK, rant over. I really have to work and this Pages spelling thing is driving me batty. Off to MS Word I go, reluctantly but at least it doesn't overwrite my text with nonsense that has to be manually corrected.

I have the same problem and it's driving me utterly insane. I feel like I'm going to have to drop for MS Word or whatever. That, or turn autocorrect off and have a page full of red squiggles.

any ideas?

Hey this just started happening to me too. I have never had this problem before and something must be wrong somewhere. Mine has been happening starting today when I am typing fast (but correctly) and it will either duplicate the letters at the end of the word (e.g. it will change very to veryy) or, as stated above, will repeat the whole end section of a word (e.g. satisfying changes to satisfyingfying). The only thing that has changed is that I got the new MacBook with touch bar that I set up as a new Mac (so no typing history in my autocorrect dictionary to mess it up). Is it something with the Touch Bar that is affecting things? Or, if autocorrect is cloud based, is it something that's wrong with apple's servers? It could also be the app, because for me it has only been happening in Pages so far. I am on Pages 6.0.5. I checked the language setting as stated above but it didn't help. Hope Apple fixes this soon!

ethocmub: "any ideas?"

yames2000: "Hope Apple fixes this soon!"

Repeating my earlier post:

"To get this message to Apple, and to the Pages developers, use the Provide Pages Feedback menu item in the Pages menu in Pages.

"Here, you're talking to users of the software, who can provide you with solutions (or work arounds) that apply to the software as it exists today."

Regards,

Barry

I would suggest that, since it is happening everywhere in Apple now, that Apple is employing Bangladeshi programmers except they probably have better English than native young English speakers in America and places like Australia.

Peter

I started having this same problem at about the same time this user asked his question. I might type the word "question" in Pages, and the moment I hit the space bar it replaces it with something like "quesiaition" with blue and red underlines.

I am seeing this on my Macbook Pro with 10.12.3 OS.

I called Apple Support because this issue was absolutely driving me insane. Every time I wrote a college paper, I had to spend twice as long as usual rereading and make sure autocorrect didn't correct my words to be something incorrect. And in under ten minutes, they fixed the issue. I couldn't tell you the steps they went through but it didn't take more than ten minutes to completely fix my problems. I suggest calling them because they know that it is an issue and are working on a permanent fix with a new update but can fix it for you in under ten minutes.

Don't worry about your shiny new machine, it's nothing to do with the Touch Bar. It's a software problem. I have this issue on a 2010 MacBook Air. Also, autocorrect has nothing to do with the cloud or Apple's servers. It is the App itself or as Peggy's suggestion implies, the Operating System generally. Having said that, I don't think I observe this behaviour in Notes or Evernote, but I'll pay closer attention and see if I do. In the meantime, I tried Peggy's suggestion with a twist, which is to turn off autocorrect in System Preferences but then turn it on again. Good luck.

I've been having this problem for about six months, just like everyone else I haven't found a solution. Extremely disappointed with the incompetence of Apple on this issue, seeing it's fairly widespread.

While I have been having this problem for months on my 2012 Macbook Pro, I have only seen this behavior in Pages. I use Evernote non-stop every day and I have never seen the problem in Evernote (there's an unrelated but similar problem when typing note titles in Evernote). It only occurs in Pages.

I had a similar problem and figured out to go to settings > general > reset > keyboard dictionary. My autocorrect wanted to change beauty to beatuty. And because to becasuse. It means that any training you've given your dictionary is gone, but worth it to have it work like an actual dictionary. I hope that helps.

H.D. Knightley

Greetings briannaisbananas,

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities!

I understand that you are having an issue with Pages autocorrecting correctly spelled words and you would like a way for Pages to ignore these words without having to add them into the spelling dictionary.

The following Pages Help link may have some suggestions that will help you be more efficient in writing your papers for nursing school. It explains how to ignore a misspelling and how to ignore suggestions amongst may other helpful bits of information.

Check spelling - Pages Help

Have a great day!

Double check that in Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spellling and Grammar the dictionary is set to US English and see if that helps.

Pages 5 uses OS X's system-wide auto-correction preferences. If you want, you can turn this feature off. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text & uncheck "Correct spelling automatically."