Comments on: Turn Off Auto Correct in Mac OS X Lion & Mountain Lion

By: Piss3d

Piss3d — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:07:42 +0000

The fact that you cannot turn this crap off is beyond me, I cannot understand how these morons can get something so simple so damn frikken wrong.

By: Strange Bug Causes Instant App Crashes in Mac OS X by Typing File:///

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:22:43 +0000

[...] bug was first reported on OpenRadar and is thought to relate to the spell checking and autocorrection features, though the bug is also replicable in prior versions of Mac OS X suggesting that may not [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:30:11 +0000

you are my hero, this has been driving me crazy

By: rd

rd — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:48:17 +0000

Okay, found it. There is the global setting in Sys Prefs, but two places in pages (Pages, Preferences and Edit, Spelling)!

By: rd

rd — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:01:30 +0000

I’ve turn it off in System Prefs and in Pages and in Safari and it still in correcting, wrongly! Help, where else do I turn it off?

By: Summon a Spelling & Grammar Checker in Mac OS X with a Keyboard Shortcut

Summon a Spelling & Grammar Checker in Mac OS X with a Keyboard Shortcut — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:12:34 +0000

[...] are the same that are underlined in red for typos, or underlined in green for improper grammar. For auto-corrected words, you’ll find them underlined in [...]

By: mer

mer — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:00:52 +0000

I have spell-check turned off on the Text system preference panel. But every time I launch an application that uses text I have to turn it off in the app preferences; it’s never saved anymore. This started with 10.7.4 and it’s driving me mad. I loathe those red squiggles while I’m typing, and they’re rarely correct, anyway. Before, it was just a matter of setting the preference once with each application. Now, it I’m not allowed for it to be my “preference” at all.

By: swbratcher

swbratcher — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:24:28 +0000

Thanks! Helpful post.

By: Setting up my new MacBook Air in the age of the “cloud” « Raanan Bar-Cohen

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:57:24 +0000

[...] Turn off OS X auto correct ! [...]

By: jim

jim — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:35:33 +0000

thank you for this! auto correct has been driving me insane! I work in a technical field and every time we get into jargon, that damn thing decreased my productivity by 1000?%

By: Swap the Last Two Characters Typed with a Keyboard Shortcut

Swap the Last Two Characters Typed with a Keyboard Shortcut — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:00:09 +0000

[...] of text editors that has carried over into OS X. The keyboard shortcut is most useful if you have autocorrect disabled, otherwise those minor typos tend to fix [...]

By: Moto

Moto — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:44:14 +0000

Hi Tonya
Be sure to select Swedish or English as the chose language for the document you are writing.

By: Tonya

Tonya — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:35:56 +0000

I’m new to the whole iMac and apple stuff and I need help please. I’m using pages 09 to type some documents in English and Swedish. The auto correct is driving me nuts because it keeps replacing Swedish words with English. I did the above step and disabled the auto correct, however, it still replaces the Swedish words. I have a Swedish keyboard and typing words correct but pages just won’t accept them. I just want it to stop replacing/correcting words automatically.
Any suggestions or help would be great. Thanks

By: Rod griffiths

Rod griffiths — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:27:10 +0000

What is really insane is when it “corrects” passwords. The damn things are supposed to be unique so correction virtually never makes sense.

By: sid

sid — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:20:04 +0000

After disabling from System Preferences, it shows as the blue bubble while typing, need to press the Esc before Space. I think that’s the max you can get for your money