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Replace all with OS X spell check?

By Mlth, 11 October, 2014

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Hi.

I'm curious if anyone knows of a way to replace the same misspelling of a word throughout a whole document when one has corrected it once?
I can't seem to find an option that does this, neither in the spell check dialog (cmd+colon) nor when moving through misspelled words (cmd+semicolon).
To illustrate, let's say I misspell the word "test" as "tset" a number of times. I want to replace all these occurrences with the proper spelling, but I only want to do it once, the equivalent of clicking "replace all" in MS word.
Is this doable? It feels like I'm missing something obvious.

Best,
Malthe.

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You cannot do this. the best

By KE7ZUM

8 years 5 months ago

You cannot do this. the best thign is to just do the spell check then just repeat the change over and over again. If I know the right word will bein the first area I just hit enter as the change button is the default.

Take care.

workaround

By Codeofdusk

8 years 5 months ago

Yes, this can be done, but all formatting will be lost. First, select all text (CMD+a) and copy (CMD+c). Then, open terminal.app. Type : nano file.txt1 followed by enter. Press CMD+v to paste the text of your file. Then, press CTRL+w followed by CTRL+r. type the misspelling followed by enter. Type the correct spelling followed by enter. When prompted if you wish to replace this instance, press a. Then, press CTRL+x followed by y followed by enter. You will have a plain text file in your home directory called file.txt


  1. If the original file is plain text, no copying/pasting is required, just supply the path of the file to nano, such as : nano ~/Documents/myStuff/DingDingDingDingus.txt ↩︎

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