Hi! I’m glad you worked it out! I was going to say about that! And mine are also checked and I’ve never checked mine either so might be the default setting if there is an update or installing new version I’m still on Mavericks and since upgrading from mountain Lion I’ve not gone into those settings! Colin
On 13 Nov 2014, at 08:43, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: > Oh sorry, they were dimmed because I hadn't started writing an email. Now > they are unchecked and I hope they stay that way because I am quite sure I > had never checked them in the first place. > > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > >> On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Colin Matthews >> <velocity.focu...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi! >> OK go to the edit menu and down to Substitutions submenu, and in there see >> if smart quotes is checked and uncheck it. >> And see if that works for you! >> HTH Colin >> >> On 13 Nov 2014, at 07:31, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> This is really becoming a major problem for me. I am running Yosemite. In >>> Mail, when I am typing, apostrophes are spoken as apostrophes. But when I >>> do cmd-semicolon to check spelling, I find that most words with apostrophes >>> in them have been joined to the word after them and sometimes a letter is >>> even dropped or inserted and the apostrophe is spoken as a single quote. I >>> have to go through and manually put a space again after the word that >>> contains the apostrophe and delete any other letters that have been added >>> or add ones that have been deleted. When I went into “edit” in the menus, >>> correcting grammar didn’t seem to be checked or unchecked so I checked it >>> and then unchecked it and for a short time I thought this had solved the >>> problem. But it has come back. This doesn’t seem to be happening in Text >>> Edit but only in mail; I knew I wasn’t that sloppy a speller or typist! >>> This is making typing in Mail a dreaded chore as I find these errors in >>> almost every email I type. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of this once >>> and for all? This happens across keyboards so is not a keyboard malfunction. >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper >>> thrown in the trash! >>> Then God gave me a new heart and life: >>> His joy for my despairing tears! >>> And now, every day: >>> "This I call to mind, >>> and therefore I have hope: >>> The steadfast love of the Lord >>> never ceases; >>> his mercies never come to an end; >>> they are new every morning; >>> great is your faithfulness." >>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
