[X Newbies] Spell Check for Mac Mail

Paul Baily mglists at paulbaily.com
Wed Feb 4 17:04:35 PST 2004


On 05/02/2004, at 1:31 am, Noel Westerlind wrote:

> When I type an eMail, the incorrectly spelled words
> are underlined but no suggested spelling comes up like other mail 
> programs.

If you control-click (or right-click with a multi-button mouse) 
anywhere on the underlined word, you'll get a pop-up menu. At the top 
of the menu will be any suggestions the spell checker has for that 
word, along with options to either learn or ignore that spelling.

As an aside, another tool you might find handy is a Services menu 
friendly thesaurus which can also take guesses at spelling. There are 
many good ones to pick from, Nisus Thesaurus is I think a really 
elegant version:

<http://www.nisus.com/Thesaurus/>

How it works in the context of Mail (and many other apps) is you 
highlight a word, hit the keyboard shortcut for Nisus Thesaurus or 
choose it from the Services menu, and you have more info on that word 
than you ever wanted.

Paul.



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