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Override a strange dictionary quirk in Pages '08
Authored by: jurg on Aug 16, '07 11:01:43AM

I noticed the same problem when copying text from Word documents, either opened in Word or in Pages. In my case the language for spell checking changed to German all the time, while I was writing in Dutch and use a Dutch Finder. Selecting all the text and changing the language for spell checking did not work for all parts of the text. Tables, for example, need to be selected separately. An annoying problem, since most of my previous documents are in Word format and I really prefer the new Pages above Word.



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Override a strange dictionary quirk in Pages '08
Authored by: mpemulis on Aug 16, '07 01:11:16PM

I had the exact same problem this week - suddenly got a doc from someone and it was tagged with Australian English. Wonder what the trigger is?



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Override a strange dictionary quirk in Pages '08
Authored by: jksellors on Aug 18, '07 05:21:55AM

Pages seems to use the System Preferences/International/Languages tab to determine the default document dictionary.
Under the System Preferences/International/Languages tab only the English was enabled on my computer.
I enabled the US English, Canadian English and British English in the Edit List pull down menu.
I then dragged the Canadian English to the top of the list.
After re-logging in and opening Pages— Canadian English was the default language.
If you change the Pages Inspector/Text/More tab Languages pull-down to Australian English and then File/Save as Template…/ with a meaningful name, then you can open this template and it will use Australian English by default.
You can also choose this template to open by default when you open the Pages application.



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