Nov 2007
Checking your spelling
2007-11-30 10:33 PM Category General Mac | Pages | Beginner | Intermediate | Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard | Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger
One of the really nice features of Mac OS X is the system-wide dictionary that is available in all applications that are written in Cocoa, Apple Inc.'s programming environment for programming.
For you, the end user it means that when you make a spelling error, the same database is used to check the spelling of a word. This means when you add a word to your user dictionary in an application such as Mail, that same user dictionary is used to check the spelling of the same word in TextEdit, Pages, Keynote and a wide variety of third party applications.
For example, each time I type my last name, Fauquet, it is underlined with red dots as shown in the illustration below. Click here to read more...
For you, the end user it means that when you make a spelling error, the same database is used to check the spelling of a word. This means when you add a word to your user dictionary in an application such as Mail, that same user dictionary is used to check the spelling of the same word in TextEdit, Pages, Keynote and a wide variety of third party applications.
For example, each time I type my last name, Fauquet, it is underlined with red dots as shown in the illustration below. Click here to read more...
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