Completing a word!
A great tip submitted by Frank Boer: Completing a word! When you're typing in a text editing application such as Pages or TextEdit, it is possible to get a pop-up with all the possible words that you might writing. So if you are in the middle of writing a complex word, instead of checking it out in the dictionary or writing it wrong and correcting it with the spell-check feature, you can easily use that feature by hitting "Esc". A drop-down box will pop-up. You can simply highlight the correct word with the arrows and hit "Tab" to keep it. Thanks for the great tip Frank!
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
7/12/2007
12 Comments:
Wow. Vital, thank you and Frank!
There was actually a moment I thought there should be something like this when you right-click a word.
How can you submit a tip? I find interesting details from time to time.
Also works in Apple Mail. Lovely tip!
to zoe click the little letter icon right under the picture. It will open your default email srvice with the email ready to be typed.
-Scott
One great tip there! It makes lots of typing so much easier for me. Great! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I have to quote zoe. "Wow".
It doesn't seem to work when typing in text boxes in Safari, which is a shame.
wow... this is great, never thought the esc button would be this usefull (^_^)
umm.. about that...
does anyone know a way to have spellcheck fully activated all the time like in Firefox? I'm not that good in english and I need it to tell me when I'm wrong without too much clicks!
nice tip!! thank you again!
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I feel a bit stupid. Tried it in Pages and it doesn't seem to work. What am I missing? I started to type a word, pressed "esc" before finished it and nothing happened. Did it in a word that spellcheck had underlined in red, also, nothing. Anyone that can help me out?
For someone like me, who has trouble spelling, this is super. Thanks
alon,
OS X has a system wide dictionary, which works in all cocoa apps (and some non). If the program you are using supports it (Mail, Safari, iChat, AdiumX, Stickies, et cetera) you can turn it on by ctrl+clicking the mouse in the program window, highlighting "Spelling..." from the contextual menu and clicking on "Check spelling while you type". This should turn on in-line spell check and you will see the little squiggly red lines under miss-spelled words.
You can also select a full spell check option in the contextual menu that will bring up a spelling wizard that will check your entire document.
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