Checking Spelling

TextEdit includes a spelling checker that you can use to manually or automatically check spelling in your document.

To manually check spelling

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Choose Edit > Spelling > Spelling (Figure 51) or press to display the Spelling dialog and start the spelling check.
Figure 51. Use commands on the Spelling submenu to check spelling in your document.

TextEdit selects and underlines the first possible misspelled word it finds. The word appears in a field in the Spelling dialog and any suggested corrections appear in the Guess list ...

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