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How to disable spellcheck system-wide in Leopard?
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12-05-2007, 10:31 PM
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 Kadio, from all I can find the only way to turn it off is as you said, per application unless someone else can find something I missed. Here is a quote from the Help system. To turn on automatic spelling and optional grammar check: ■ Open the application that you want to use and choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > “Check Spelling as You Type.” ■ To also check grammar with spelling, choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Check Grammar With Spelling. If you don’t see this item in the Edit menu, the application doesn’t provide the Mac OS X spell-checking feature. The application may have its own spell checker. Look in the application’s preferences or menus for a spell checker. |
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12-05-2007, 11:27 PM
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03-07-2008, 10:07 PM
The method at the above link works and is easy if you're command line savvy. A few apps may complain repeatedly, such as Aperture, but if you disable their individual spell-checking preference (usually under a "Spelling' sub-menu item) they will quiet down. Here's part of the thread: "Disabling spell checking in MacOS X Tiger sudo mv /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service \ /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service.disabled For some reason nobody in the whole internet wants to disable the spell checker. The bloody red dashed underline really annoys me and it's always on the things I say which aren't supposed to be real words and I know that they're not so what's the point of telling me they're not real words!? Anyway, I did the mv and it's stopped so I could potentially be happy." |
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