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Apple Mac computers use the spell check function to check the spelling of words in your documents against the New Oxford American Dictionary. Occasionally, you may find that you use words that are not in the dictionary, such as proper nouns, and these words are marked as misspelled. You can then choose to add these words to your personal dictionary on your Apple Mac to prevent them from being marked as incorrect.
1.Sometimes Writer thinks I don't know how to spell and puts little red sguiggly underlines under my words. I need to make my finished documents NOT do this. I also need to save in Word or MS Office compatible format and NOT have these little red underlines appear. Adding the words to my dictionary will not keep them from appearing when opened on someone else's computer.
Type your text into the text field or word processing program.
2.Click on 'Edit' in the program menu and mouse over 'Spelling and Grammar' in the pop-up menu. Select the 'Check Document Now' option to show the misspelled words.
3.Right-click the misspelled word and mouse over 'Spelling and Grammar' in the pop-up menu. Select 'Show Spelling and Grammar' from the sub-options to open the Spelling window.
4.Click the 'Learn' button on the left to add the word to your Apple Mac dictionary.
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Amy Scott started writing professionally in 2008. She began writing human-interest articles while working at local news website SanFelipe.com.mx, which led to writing a how-to column for her local newspaper, 'The San Felipe Newsletter.' Scott is pursuing a degree in equine studies from the University of Guelph.
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