Select the language you want to use. In Word for the web, click or tap where you're going to add text, or select the text that you want to mark as a different language. On the Review tab, select Spelling & Grammar Set Proofing Language. Scroll to the language you want to use and select it. You can also use the Language feature to change the language of just the selected text: Select a word or passage in the text. Choose Tools→Language from the menu bar. Select a language to use. Click OK to close the Language dialog. Choose Tools→Spelling and Grammar.

Just as your iPhone can, your Mac is able to automatically correct your spelling, capitalization, and more. In fact, the Mac comes with a number of tools to help make entering text much easier.

Here's how to configure things the way you like them.

How to enable/disable automatic text correction, capitalization, and period on double space

Your Mac can automatically correct your spelling and capitalization. Of course, if this proves to be too annoying, you can always turn these settings off.

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Click Keyboard.

  3. Click the TextLight up sketchup mac crack wifi windows. tab.

  4. Click the checkboxes next to Correct spelling automatically, Capitalize words automatically, and Add period with double-space to turn these features on or off.

How to change your autocorrect language

If you only need autocorrect for a single language, it's easy to specify which one your Mac should look out for.

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Click Keyboard.

  3. Click the Text tab.

  4. Choose your preferred autocorrect language from the drop-down menu under Spelling.

How to manage smart quotes

Smart quotes are a typographic feature that makes it easier to enter quotation marks. Here's how you manage them on your Mac.

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Click Keyboard.

  3. Click the Text tab.

  4. Check the box to turn smart quotes and dashes on.

  5. Click the drop-down menu to choose your style for double quotes.

  6. Click the next drop-down to choose your style for single quotes.

How to create text shortcuts

You can create short text snippets that expand into longer pieces of text, emoji characters, and more, without needing to purchase a third-party application.

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Click Keyboard.

  3. Click the Text tab.

  4. Click the + button towards the bottom left of the window.

  5. Enter the shortcut for your text replacement, such as 'omw' for 'on my way'.

  6. Hit the Tab key on your keyboard and enter the text that will replace your shortcut, such as 'On my way!'.

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Select app, Get Info, click the triangle next to Languages, uncheck the ones you don't want..
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Have you ever tried doing that for an app that supports dozens of languages? ;)
Kidding aside, Get Info *is* the easiest method for most users and most apps..

yeah, 'Get Info' is the easiest way.

Somehow I always manage to miss the easiest solutions.. :-) Thank you for that addition!

Yeah, but your way is still better, in my opinion. While the method in the comment has its uses, it misses the main benefit of the hint, which is that it allows any user to change the language of any application independently. 'Get Info' enables or disables the languages of the app system-wide, limiting or setting the languages available for all users so everyone gets stuck with the same reduced choices.
For example, if you and everyone else sharing the computer uses the primary language of English but you want to run iChat in Elbonian, you would have to disable English in 'Get Info' for iChat. If you don't disable English and your primary language is English, iChat launches in English, not Elbonian. If you disable English, nobody else on the computer gets to use iChat in English at all.
Setting AppleLanguages in a user-specific, application specific manner is much more flexible, and furthermore, no admin privileges are required.

I find it much easier to use the defaults utility in Terminal, eg.:

Elegant way - I confirm: it's work
I add this one
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit AppleLanguages '('fr-FR')'
(by default, I work with US finder but for WordProcessing app, it is good to have mother language !)
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From the command line, you can also change the language for just one launch using the '-AppleLanguages' switch. I use that a lot when I have to test localizations in my own applications or make screenshots in other languages:
/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal -AppleLanguages '(de)'

The 'Get Info' options have changed since this hint was posted, so that method will not work any longer.
There is an excellent, free program called Language Switcher that handles this (can be one-time or permanent), at http://www.tj-hd.co.uk/languageswitcher/

This post is news again, for me :-)
The original poster's way is actually the only one that works for me under 10.6.
Neither the terminal method, nor the Language Switcher app work for me giving me both the same 'iTunes needs 10.7 to run in 64bit mode' and to check 32bit mode in 'Get Info', which oddly, you can't do in iTunes!
The OP's method works fine for me !

Thanks!
Language Switcher has solved my problem with english OS and russian version of Adobe Illustrator CS5.