


There’s also a dictionary of words to automatically correct, populated with more than 3,500 common typographical errors-for example, allready and popualr. For example, the program also includes a robust auto-correction tool, which you can use to automatically fix errors such as double capitals and double spaces, and to automatically format smart quotes and fractions. While all of these spelling features work well, they barely scratch the surface of what Spell Catcher X can do. There are also editable learned-words dictionaries covering computer terms, HTML syntax, and abbreviations. Spell Catcher X also provides more dictionaries than the spell checker built into OS X, including ones for medical, geographical, legal, and biographical vocabularies. If you’d rather not hear your computer speak every time you make a typo (and I know I don’t), you can change the style of the alert, or even disable it entirely. When the program does find an error, your Mac’s voice will speak the word curious to indicate that it has found a questionable word. When you switch apps, Spell Catcher X will change its settings accordingly. You can customize the way Spell Catcher works in individual programs for example, you could use the pop-up window in one program and DirectCorrect in another. The colors represent different problems: blue for repeated words, red for incorrect spellings, brown for bad punctuation, and purple for incorrect capitalization.ĭirectCorrect color-codes errors: blue for repeated words, red for incorrect spellings, and so on. This mode provides real-time, colorful, impossible-to-miss overlays for words that need correcting.

There’s also a third mode, DirectCorrect, that works only in certain applications. Or you can have a panel or window pop up automatically when Spell Catcher spots a mistake. You can use Spell Catcher X as you do the built-in spell checking, correcting words via a panel that appears when you activate spell check.
