Spell Check feature offered by operating system is used by most Mac applications and they also share the same personal dictionary. So if one custom word is added to the dictionary used by one application, the remaining applications will not detect it as a typo in the future. But if you have intentionally or unintentionally added a word into the dictionary, it has no obvious path for its removal.
It does not apply to the some of the Mac applications, such as Microsoft office apps as they use their own dictionary, so it does not apply to them. But despite of this many applications use Mac dictionary.
Adding words to Word 2010 default dictionary manually may become a tiresome process, especially when you want to add multiple words. To begin, create another dictionary, containing the names, words and phrases you use most frequently. Word 2010 allows you to save the list of words in DIC. I notice when using Office 2011 for mac (v14.1.3), that I cannot customise the dictionary. I cannot Add proper nouns, and I cannot change the spelling This happens even though I have selected Eng (Australia) from the dictionary lists. I have been using Word/Office for many years but on PC,.
Remove the word which you just added:
If you have just added a word mistakenly in the dictionary, a quick method is suggested by the Mac OS X to remove the word. However, some of the applications require and some have ‘remove a word’ feature. Mostly it does not matter in which application you added the word. Lets assume as most of the applications do, you added the word in the systems dictionary. It can be quickly removed in TextEdit.
For example, you added the word ‘teh’ without correcting it to ‘the’ in the dictionary of the Google Chrome for Mac. Other Mac applications including chrome will no more mark ‘teh’ as wrong word.
To fix this problem, you need to open the TextEdit quickly. To open spotlight search press ‘command + space’, type TextEdit and press enter.
By clicking the new document create a new document in the TextEdit. Type that misspelled word in the document or you can copy and paste it from the other applications. Right-click on the misspelled word or you can CTRL + right click. A menu will appear containing the option of ‘Unlearn Spelling’ option. Click on that option to remove that word from the dictionary.
Afterward, close the TextEdit and choose the delete option when it will be asked to save the document because saving the document is not required. If this feature is offered by the other Mac Applications it will be more convenient. This feature was added to Mac OS X 10.7 and other applications can choose to offer this feature. But the problem is that many Mac applications is not offering this feature, the name of the famous browser Google Chrome is also in the list.
If you ever added the word in the dictionary you need to move quickly to the TextEdit in many other Mac applications. If you ever right click the word or CTRL + click the word but the option of ‘Unlearn a word’ do not appear, you need to visit TextEdit.
View or Edit Custom Word:
When you added a word by mistake and want to erase it. Launch the window finder. Click the ‘GO’ on the menu bar and select Go to Folder from the dropdown list. Write
~/Library/Spelling
In the text box and click go. A ‘local dictionary ’ file will appear containing all the custom added words. Erase the word, you want to remove. Click on the ‘File’ on menu bar and select ‘save’ from the dropdown and close the file.
Recent versions of Mac OS X will offer suggestions and automatically correct stuff if you’ve misspelled a word.
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If you tap the spacebar when you see a suggestion like the one above, your Mac will helpfully insert the correction, and you’ll be on your way. But what if it keeps trying to correct a word you know is right? I find this happens a lot with technical terms.
Thanks for playing, but no.
Well, there’s a custom dictionary file for every user account on your Mac, and were you so inclined, you could go in and add words, names, or anything else you were tired of being corrected on to its list. This’ll prevent Mac OS X from attempting to correct those items, and it’ll also take away that irritating red squiggle underneath ’em that means they're misspelled. Ah, bliss.
Editing that dictionary is actually simple—it’ll just involve getting to your hidden Library folder. To do that, click on the Finder icon in your Dock (it’s the blue smiley face on the left) and choose the “Go” menu at the top. If you hold down the Option key with that “Go” menu open, “Library” will appear.
Click that, and then look for a folder within it called “Spelling.” Open THAT, and you’ll see “LocalDictionary” inside.
Before you make changes here, I’d strongly suggest you make a copy of this file just in case something goes wrong. But then if you double-click “LocalDictionary,” it should open in your default text editor, and you’ll be able to see and edit its contents.
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What a cromulent list.
Now’s where you go nuts—add multiple items to your dictionary (but be sure to keep them in alphabetical order!), edit things on it, or remove words if you don’t want them to be considered correctly spelled anymore. When you’ve made your changes, save the file and then log out and back in again. After you do that, your changes will be applied, and your life will be easier! Well, at least this one tiny bit of your life will be.
Oh, and there’s one more thing. If all you want to do is add a single word to this personal dictionary, that’s even faster. First, spell the word the way you’d like it to be, and then right-click on it and choose “Learn Spelling.”
That’ll automatically put the word in the dictionary file I mentioned above, and your Mac shouldn’t ever try to correct you again on it.
And by the way, I do actually know how to spell “dachshund.” I promise I only had to look it up two or three times.