User Guide
Chapter 8 Working with Text 187
To automatically convert single and double quotation marks to smart quotes so that
opening and closing quotation marks are not identical, select “Use smart quotes.”
To make sure that the rst word in a sentence begins with a capital letter, select “Fix
capitalization.”
To automatically convert the letters in “1st,” “2nd,” “3rd,” and so on into superscripts,
select “Superscript numerical suxes.”
To set Numbers to automatically detect that something you’ve typed is an email
address or a URL, select “Automatically detect email and web addresses.” Email and
web addresses you type automatically become hyperlinks for Mail or Safari.
To use automatic list generation, select “Automatically detect lists.”
To automatically replace misspelled words if there is only one option in the spelling
dictionary, select “Automatically use spell checker suggestions.”
To replace one or more characters with one or more dierent characters, select
“Symbol and text substitution.” Then use the rows in the table to dene and activate
specic substitutions. For example, when you type (c), you can have Numbers
automatically convert it to © by putting a checkmark in the On column. To add a row
to the table to dene your own substitution, click the Add (+) button. To remove a
selected item, click the Delete (–) button.
After you specify substitution settings, they’ll apply to any text you change or add in
any Numbers spreadsheet.
Inserting a Nonbreaking Space
You can insert a nonbreaking space between words to make sure that the words
always appear in the same line of text.
To insert a nonbreaking space:
Press the Space bar while holding down the Option key. m
Checking for Misspelled Words
You can set the spell checker to ag spelling errors as you type, or you can check your
entire spreadsheet or selected text at any time.
Misspelled words appear with a red dashed line below them.
Here are ways to nd misspelled words:
To check spelling as you type, choose Edit > Spelling > “Check Spelling as You Type.” m
To turn o spell checking as you type, click Edit > Spelling > “Check Spelling as You
Type” to deselect it (make sure the checkmark is not visible next to the command).