Nov 09, '12 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: spinkb
I write a lot of e-mails; often hundreds a day providing support to customers. Not form e-mails, but actual human e-mails. Mail has pretty good auto-correction for spelling errors, but it doesn't handle key sequencing errors where the space key gets hit just before the ending letter of a word, or when letters come out just slightly out of sequence form typing fast. I constantly found myself proofreading for weird auto-corrected words, fixing the red underlined unknown things Mail didn't fix, and fixing missed capitalization mistakes such as "i" and "THanks." I searched and searched, trying to figure out how to remove words from dictionary, when I suddenly realized I could override the dictionary. Until now, I just see people telling you how to make shortcuts to type longer texts and such, but it's more useful to me to have it fix my typos so I can write my text faster.
Open System Preferences, click on Language & Text, then on the Text tab to see the Symbol and text substitution list. Using this, I can fix common spelling sequence typos automatically, and have made my typo error rate almost 0%.
Here are some examples that Mail didn't auto-correct:
- i > I
- em > me
- hte > the
- ym > my
- tis > its
- ont hem > on them
- suer > user
- fi > if
- od > do
- beb > Ben
- apss > pass
- si > is
- eb > be
- sue > use
- Whent he > When he
- int eh > in the
- ont he > on the
- ont eh > on the
- ti > it
- tot he > to the
- trya > try a
- a nd > and
