I've recently switched to Mac and although I like it overall but many useful features just don't seem to work. One example is the spell-checker. Most often it gives me no suggestions at all whereas I can get suggestion for the same spelling in MS word on my windows laptop (note: MS word on my Mac doesn't work effectively either). For instance, look at the example below: 1.' Sophicistated' spelled in-correctly in Pages: • 'Sophicistated' spelled in-correctly in TextEdit: • 'Sophicistated' spelled in-correctly in MS word: Now, although I don't have my windows laptop with me right now but I grabbed a screenshot from MS Word's onlne editor on skydrive and that seems to work perfectly.

Spell check in general doesn't work that well on Mac, irrespective of the applicaiton used. At least, that's what my understanding is. I've tried a couple of apps (including the Mac Pages app, MS Word app on Mac, TextEdit etc.) but none of them work as good as spelling suggestion provided by apps on other platforms for instance, Google docs, MS. Open an app on your Mac, such as Pages. Click the Edit menu and select Spelling and Grammar. Enable Check Spelling While Typing if it isn't already activated.

Google docs also works equally efficiently. This is not just one example, after seeing it not work for countless spellings I'm finally posting it here. Mac os x 10.11 download.

Foremost, I wonder why MS Word doesn't work with same effectiveness in Mac. Are there any ways to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the Mac spell checker?

In addition to the standard spell checking tool, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook can also check spelling and grammar as you type, indicating errors using colored, squiggly lines under the text. However, if all the squiggly lines are too distracting, you can turn one or both of these features off. Say you’re working on a document that contains a lot of industry-specific jargon, abbreviations, or highly-specialized words. Word will mark all these with red, squiggly lines even though they are not technically misspelled.

If you’re writing legal documents, Word might question the grammar of some of the really long, complicated sentences generally used when writing “legalese”, and you may not want to see all the green, squiggly lines in your document. We’ll show you how to disable the automatic spelling and grammar check options in Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as how to disable the spelling and grammar check only for certain paragraphs, if you don’t want to disable these features for the whole document. Let’s start with Word and PowerPoint (the process is a bit different for Outlook, so we’ll cover that below). Open an existing file or a new file.

Then, click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, click “Options” in the list of items on the left. On the Word Options (or PowerPoint Options) dialog box, click “Proofing” in the list of items on the left.

To disable the automatic spell check, click the “Check spelling as you type” check box. Click the “Mark grammar errors as you type” check box in Word (or the “Hide spelling and grammar errors” check box in PowerPoint) to disable the automatic grammar check. When the options are disabled, the check boxes are empty. Most current microsoft office package. Click “OK” to accept the changes and close the Options dialog box. In Outlook, click the “File” tab from either the main Outlook window or from a message window and click “Options” in the list of items on the resulting screen.

The “Outlook Options” dialog box displays. If you opened this dialog box from a message window, the Mail screen will be active. Otherwise, click “Mail” in the list of items on the left to activate the Mail screen.

In the Compose messages section, click “Editor Options”. On the Editor Options dialog box, click the “Check spelling as you type” check box and the “Mark grammar errors as you type” check box to disable the spelling check and the grammar check, respectively. Click “OK” to accept the changes and close the Editor Options dialog box. You are returned to the Outlook Options dialog box.