autocorrectmacos
Occasionally, when chatting, it is fun to deliberately misspell words, dyaknowadImean?
OS X Lion is autocorrecting my misspellings into completely random words! Does anyone know how I can temporarily, (e.g. by holding down a key as i type the deliberately misspelled word?) disable autocorrect?
The two settings are independent for me.
What app are you using, where you're continuously forced to turn on spell checking? Most likely it's a bug in that app.
Go to System Preferences, select Language & Text, then the Text tab, and deselect the box for that option.
Or you can disable the feature completely by deselecting the box at the top.
Best Answer
Go to
System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts. Add a shortcut for All Applications. Give it the keystroke you like. The name should be: "Correct Spelling Automatically".