Preferences: Textcheck

General preferences

Set language

Under set language, you can set the preferred language to be used for checking the texts. If the option (Auto) is used, the text is checked by an automatic recognition of the language.
However, for best results, the preferred language should be explicitly selected and, if available, the corresponding dialect. E.g., if the text is intended for the British language area, (en-GB) should be used as language instead of (en-US) or simply (en).

Picky mode

By activating this option, an advanced check will be performed, which will reveal word repetitions, colloquialisms, other linguistic weaknesses, among others.

Styles Preferences

In this section, the appearance of the displayed errors can be customized for each error type. Three options are available for each error type:


Note: Changes to the styles will appear immediately. If there are corresponding errors in the current text, these errors will be recolored accordingly.

Underline type

To change the type of underlining, click on the popup button and select the desired option. There is also an option that no underlining should be done.

Set color

To set the color, click on the color field. The macOS color picker will appear, and you can choose the color you want.

Color text

With this option, the correspondingly erroneous text is colored with the currently selected color.

Dictionary Preferences

The Preferences for your own dictionary allows you to manage the collected words that should not be considered in the error display.

From the table, individual words can be removed again from the dictionary, by clicking the remove button of the appropriate entry.

Remove all words from the dictionary

To remove all words from the dictionary, the "Empty dictionary" button must be clicked.

Note: this action cannot be undone.

Autocorrect Preferences

The Preferences for autocorrext allows you to manage the collection of issues that should be corrected automatically while checking a text.

From the table, individual words can be removed again from the collection, by clicking the remove button of the appropriate entry.

Remove all words from the collection

To remove all words from the collection, the "Clear learned" button must be clicked.

Note: this action cannot be undone.