One of the annoying features of the system-wide spell check on Mac's is the fact you have to grab your mouse, right-click the word, and then click again to select the word. Macworld shows off how accomplish the same thing with just the keyboard.
This trick works on any program that uses Apple's built-in spell checking system, which means the likes of TextEdit or Mail. You have to enable to options for it to work. Under Edit > Spelling and Grammar, make sure Check Spelling While Typing and Correct Spelling Automatically are checked. When you misspell a word, hit the space bar, then the left arrow, and a menu will drop down with spelling suggestions you can navigate to with the arrow keys. It's a handy way to keep your hands on the keyboard and off the mouse while typing.
- Losing important text and data can be frustrating, especially if you have been working on the text for a while. Luckily, Windows contains several commands and features that enable you to restore deleted text.
- Word will find the first instance of the text and highlight it in gray. Review the text to make sure you want to replace it. In our example, the text is part of the title of the paper and does not need to be replaced. We'll click Find Next again to jump to the next instance.
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How to Use 'Find' and 'Find and Replace' Features in Microsoft Word Documents. In this Article: On Windows On Mac Community Q&A This wikiHow teaches you how to use Microsoft Word's 'Find and Replace' feature to look up words in your document, as well as how to replace instances of a word with another word.
It also goes well with our previously mentioned tip for hitting the Escape key when you're struggling with a word spelling. It doesn't work in every application, but it's worth trying in any program you use that relies on the built-in spell checker.
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Thanks to Reddit user josawalk, whom I hate, yet love, I now know how to change chunks of text from all capital letters to lowercase.
There were so many times in school when I needed to copy text from some PDF or a source like JSTOR and all of the letters were in uppercase!
SOMETIMES I SIMPLY FORGOT THAT CAPS LOCK WAS ON AND WOULD HAVE TO RETYPE THAT WHOLE SENTENCE.
If only I knew about this easy MS Word keyboard shortcut, I would've saved so much time and effort.
Note that this trick will work with most of the Office suite of apps, including Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Excel