I can choose Learn so it adds that word there. I can also choose Ignore so it won't go back to it as it loops around through the document. I could skip this by doing Find Next and it will leave the incorrectly spelled word there. So I get to choose what is the correct word. You can see here it gives me several different options. You can then click Change here which will change it and then move on to the next word. So this is a more precise way of correct spelling. Sometimes there will be more than one here. It shows me the word currently selected and it selects it there. If instead I do Command Shift and then the same key, in other words Command colon, then it brings up this little window here. So it's a quick way to check for misspelled words I can continue to do Command semicolon to go through the words and it will loop through the document. So if I were to do Command and semicolon it will jump to the next word that it thinks is misspelled. So in other words Command and the same key but with or without the Shift. You can see the keyboard shortcuts there are the Command key and colon and the Command key and semicolon. You can go to Check Document Now or Show Spelling and Grammar. Now if you have some spelling mistakes in here you can review them in one of two ways.
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If you prefer to type without the auto correction but still see when there's a word it thinks is misspelled simple turn off Correct Spelling Automatically but leave on Check Spelling While Typing. So this prevents spelling mistakes right as they happen. But that blue underline will disappear after you type the next word. Instead of a red underline I get a blue dotted underline just to indicate that it changed something. You could see that it corrected the word. For instance let me try to type this incorrectly spelled word here. Now you may rarely see this dotted red line because if you have Correct Spelling Automatically turned on then as you type the words it will correct it. It will take a little time if say you're editing a book of a hundred pages. Now that seemed to happen pretty instantly with just these three paragraphs. Now if I were to go in and turn on Check Spelling While Typing it will underline with those red dots anything it finds that's wrong.
You can see when I uncheck those no longer are the errors underlined. So let's uncheck both of those and start from scratch. Notice that I have checked Check Spelling While Typing and Correct Spelling Automatically. Now all the controls for spell checking are found under Edit and then you look for Spelling and Grammar. You can see, just by default, it recognizes those are spelling mistakes and it has them underlined with this red dotted line. I've got a few paragraphs typed here and I have three spelling mistakes.
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Best of all it works the same way between apps. Using Spell Check on your Mac is pretty straight forward. There you could read more about it, join us and get exclusive content. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 500 supporters.
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Today let's take a look at how to use Spell Check on your Mac. Check out How To Spell Check Your Documents On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.