Hum, this sounds like a switching issue. In windows, you could often highlight a selection and press f7 or some such to make it spellcheck the selected text.
Mac doesn't work that way. If you have the feature turned on, it will tell you as you read back that a word is misspelled. Or, if you have your keyboard echo set to words as I have, it will tell you a word is misspelled when you complete it by pressing the space bar.. If you want to check that word, you highlight it and press control option shift M, and choose the correct spelling from the popup menu. I find the notifications about misspelled words get in my way occasionally but other than that, it's a highly streamlined system and my writing has improved because of it. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf APlus certified technician and user support consultant Call toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 Visit my all new website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Email: [email protected] On 2010-04-20, at 1:07 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Oh there's no way to just check a selection of text then? because in the web > forms command collen is the onl way to go as it looses focus and I end up in > the search iin spotlite menu. > > Tc > On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Jessica and Goldina wrote: > >> hey Sarah, >> command shift semicolon will spellcheck the entire document. you can do it >> manually word by word with command semicolon and then VO shift m to bring up >> the contextual menu for the list of suggestions. >> peace and positivity >> Jessica and Goldina >> follow me on Twitter: >> http://www.twitter.com/canadian_diva >> >> On 2010-04-19, at 7:30 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>> Hello to all. How do I spell check a selection in text edit or anywhere? >>> >>> I selected the text and hit command shift semicolon and it spellchecked the >>> document not the selection. Did I do something wrong? >>> >>> thanks. >>> >>> >>> Sarah Alawami >>> [email protected] >>> msn: [email protected] >>> website: http://music.marrie.org >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/marrie1 >>> podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com/feeds >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
