That seems to work almost everywhere, all the time, which is awesome because it IS awesome. Problem is, I accidentally told it to learn a word that isn’t misspelled and now I want to have it unlearn the misspelling.
That is, I use the spelling checker in Mac OS X and click on Learn Spelling as I go so that it doesn’t flag people’s names, etc.
Now you will be able to type kokotacoburger without it triggering your spellcheck as an erroneous word. I will appreciate you explaining how to forget words from the Mac speller. …the choices you made in System Preferences won’t work. Select the word to add to spellcheck, and then right-click on the word (or control+click) Choose Learn Spelling from the contextual menu to add the selected word to your spell check on the Mac.
correct proofing tools when you right-click (control-click) or when you run Tools>Spelling. Navigate to the spelling you want to use, then press VO-Space bar to select it. To open a shortcut menu of suggestions, dictionaries, and more, press VO-Shift-M. Similarly, if you’ve gone in and turned off a program’s ability to change stuff under Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically (or Check Spelling While Typing)... Word is giving you instructions on how to find that text. If the word’s not actually misspelled, press Command- until you hear a word that needs to be corrected. If you have the aforementioned checkboxes ON in System Preferences but OFF here, the replacements won’t work Pages’ preferences take precedence. For example, if you open Pages and visit Pages > Preferences, you’ll see a couple of similar choices under the “Auto-Correction” tab. If the accepted answer doesnt work, try this: Uncheck 'Check Spelling While Typing', and optionally 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. But be aware of one caveat: Some programs, such as Microsoft Word and Apple’s Pages, have their own settings that can override these options. Click on text tab and there is an option on that window to correct spelling automatically. Cool! Once you’ve turned on a checkbox here, it’ll work in lots of places around your Mac, like Messages and Mail. So with this, you can toggle on spelling correction, auto-capitalization (which will magically capitalize the first word of sentences and proper nouns), and inserting a period when you double-tap the spacebar.
There you’ll see the three relevant checkboxes: