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The following tutorial applies to OS X Lion (10.7), but the fundamentals have been present in the OS X structure for a while. Some very slight modification of this tutorial will help you spell check in British English regardless of your OS X flavour. | The following tutorial applies to OS X Lion (10.7), but the fundamentals have been present in the OS X structure for a while. Some very slight modification of this tutorial will help you spell check in British English regardless of your OS X flavour. | ||
== What this tutorial covers == | == What this tutorial covers == | ||
This is a tutorial about how to quickly change your ''global'', OS-level spelling settings. These changes will take effect across all Apple-made programs, like Safari and TextEdit. They also seem to take effect within Microsoft Word 2011. However, they have no effect upon non-Apple browsers, like Opera and Firefox. For more help with changing the spell checking behaviour of other browsers, please consult: | This is a tutorial about how to quickly change your ''global'', OS-level spelling settings. These changes will take effect across all Apple-made programs, like Safari and TextEdit. They also seem to take effect within Microsoft Word 2011. However, they have no effect upon non-Apple browsers, like Opera and Firefox. For more help with changing the spell checking behaviour of other browsers, please consult:<div id=inline-box-rt>Although we provide advice about how to instal a British spell checker in other browsers '''[[Help:Spell checking with Firefox#Mac users should edit in Safari|we strongly discourage Mac editors from using other browsers to edit this site]]'''. Safari offers the best all-round British spell checking.</div> | ||
<div id=inline-box-rt>Although we provide advice about how to instal a British spell checker in other browsers '''[[Help:Spell checking with Firefox#Mac users should edit in Safari|we strongly discourage Mac editors from using other browsers to edit this site]]'''. Safari offers the best all-round British spell checking.</div> | *[[Help:Spell checking with Firefox|Spell checking with Firefox]] | ||
*[[Help:Spell checking with Opera|Spell checking with Opera]] | |||
*[[Help:Spell checking with Chrome|Spell checking with Chrome]] | |||
== Why change global settings? == | == Why change global settings? == | ||
