Hi Gary, I know you have solved your issue, I’m just adding some more comments regarding OS X System Preferences>Keyboard>Text> Spelling — Apple Language Dictionaries (there are quite a few)
Spell-Check on the Fly Mac OS X offers a really quick way to check the spelling of individual words in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, Mail, Notes, and other text-based applications. In fact, you can check spelling on the fly without leaving the application you’re using. Here’s how. When you misspell a word — or type one that doesn’t appear in the standard Apple dictionary (System Preferences>Keyboard>Text-Spelling), Mac OS X highlights it with a dotted red line. To replace it with the correct spelling, right-click the word (or Control-click the word). A pop-up menu appears, offering a list of possible replacements. Click the correct spelling of the word to instantly update your document. If you know a highlighted term is spelled correctly, and you don’t want Mac OS X to highlight it in future occurrences, choose the Ignore Spelling option from the list. Mac OS X removes the highlighting below that word wherever it appears, and won’t underline this word again if you use it subsequently in your current document. If you want all text-based Mac OS X applications to know the correct spelling of that word, you can customize the Mac OS X dictionary to include this correct spelling of the term. To do so, choose the Learn Spelling option. Mac OS X adds this spelling to its dictionary, and that word appears in the pop-up list of correctly spelled terms, whether you’re using Pages, Keynote or any other text-based Mac OS X application that uses its spelling dictionary. By the way, while this shortcut offers a quick way to check the spelling of a single word, you can always check the spelling of your entire document by pressing Command + Shift + ; (semicolon). Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage El Capitan OS X 10.11.4 > On 23 May 2016, at 10:41 AM, gdorn%me <[email protected]> wrote: > > howdy > > is it possible to add words to Pages spell checker. > > For instance - I want to use "Verandah" but spell checker comes up with > veranda. > > > chow > > > gdorn > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
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