Gear up up Motorcar-Correction and add words to your dictionary in Pages, Numbers and Keynote

Automatically check spelling, prepare automatic text replacements, add together words to the dictionary and more than on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Set up Machine-Correction

Turn on Auto-Correction on your device:

  • On iPhone or iPad, open a certificate in Pages, Numbers or Keynote, tap the More button, tap Settings and then tap Auto-Correction.
  • On Mac, in Pages, Numbers or Keynote choose [app name] > Preferences from the card bar, then choose Auto-Correction.

Use the Car-Correction settings to customise how Pages, Numbers and Keynote handle spelling and formatting past ticking and unticking the available options. These options include:

  • Detecting lists
  • Detecting website and email links
  • Detecting telephone links
  • Applying link styles
  • Applying superscript to number suffixes
  • Formatting fractions
  • Using smart quotes and smart dashes, which replaces single and double quotes with curly quotes or your called quote style, and automatically converts double hyphens to dashes (Mac simply)

If you're using iCloud Keychain, each app's settings volition be shared across all of your Apple products that are signed in to your iCloud account.

Some options may also be bachelor in other menus within iWork. If you alter a setting in some other menu, your Motorcar-Correction settings will exist changed besides. Some iWork settings are similar to other settings on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. In near cases, the settings that y'all choose in Pages, Numbers or Keynote volition override the system setting on your device.

Prepare custom text replacements

With text replacement, you can apply shortcuts to supplant longer phrases. When y'all type the shortcut in your certificate, the phrase volition automatically replace it.

In the Automobile-Correction settings for Pages, Numbers and Keynote, you can set up text replacement for use inside each specific app.

Set up custom text replacements on iPhone or iPad

  1. With a certificate open, tap the More button .
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Tap Auto-Correction.
  4. Make sure that Text Replacement is turned on, then tap Replacements Listing.
  5. Tap the Add together button.
    • For Phrase, enter what you desire the app to change the text to (for example, "©").
    • For Shortcut, enter the text that you lot desire to use to prompt the replacement (for instance, "(c)").

iPad Pro with Numbers document text replacements list open

If you've used this example, every time yous blazon "(c)" in Pages, Numbers or Keynote, the app will modify it to "©".

Set up custom text replacements on Mac

  1. Open the Auto-Correction settings.
  2. Under Replacement, brand sure that "Symbol and text exchange" is selected, then click the add together button.
    • Under Replace, enter the text that you want to use to prompt the replacement (for example, "(c)").
    • Under With, enter what you want the app to change the text to (for example, "©").
      macOS Numbers Auto-Correction preferences window

If y'all've used this instance, every time you lot blazon "(c)" in Pages, Numbers or Keynote, the app will change information technology to "©".

Undo text replacement

If Pages, Numbers or Keynote replaces the text, and you want to restore it to the mode you typed it in, press Command-Z on your keyboard or tap the Disengage push.

Employ Auto-Correction with other languages

Auto-Correction is available for the languages that your Mac is set up to spell check. To run across these languages, get to Organisation Preferences > Keyboard > Text and click the Spelling pop-up menu. Click "Set up Up" to find out how to add dictionaries for additional languages. On iPhone or iPad, Machine-Correction is not bachelor for all languages.

Add words to the dictionary on your device

When Pages, Numbers or Keynote detects a word that information technology doesn't recognise, information technology volition underline the word with a dotted crimson line. Yous tin can add together the word to the dictionary on your device so that iWork and other apps will recognise the give-and-take and include information technology in spell check:

  • On iPad or iPhone, tap the underlined give-and-take, then tap Learn Spelling (you lot may need to tap Supercede beginning).
  • On Mac, Control-click the discussion, so choose Learn Spelling.

In Pages, Numbers or Keynote on Mac, you can also choose Ignore Spelling if you no longer desire that app to mark this discussion every bit misspelt. To add, edit or remove the words in your iWork app's Ignored Words listing, choose Pages > Preferences, choose Car-Correction and and so click Ignored Words. Click the add button (+) or the remove button (-) to add together or remove words. Or click on a word to edit its spelling.

If spell check and Car-Correction aren't working

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