Spellcheck in XD not wanted

[markv4288890]

I would like to turn off the new spellcheck/autocorrect feature in XD but don't see an easy way to do so. We use an icon font set for adding icons to our designs and since I have updated to the latest version, XD is autocorrecting my entries - for example, one of the icons has a character mapping of "n" but XD corrects it to "N" because it thinks I am starting a sentence and wants to capitalize it. This also assumes that I always want to start typing with a capital letter no matter what the situation. There is one other issue that I find annoying, and that is that XD adds a period (.) if I add more than two spaces between words. This has been happening for a while, not just in the new version. Even Word or other word processing programs don't assume that I have just ended a sentence. This is totally unnecessary and adds no value, because I then have to manually go back and remove the period from the line of text, and then it keeps happening and I don't have a way to stop it the next time. If anyone knows how to configure XD to stop these annoying "features" please let me know.

thanks.

[CoreyRLucier · Accepted solution]

On Mac just uncheck Spelling and Grammar from the edit menu.

On Windows there should be a similar menu item in the top level menu of the app.

[Colin Holgate]

Menus on the top level of an app in Windows doesn't apply to UWP apps like XD. There is a turn off spellcheck option in the 'hamburger' menu:

[ryannk11295206]

This solution didn't seem to help with the insertion of a period (.) when you add more than one space. Any ideas on how to turn that off?

Thanks!

[cs24203829f1fr]

Just noting that you need to restart XD for it to take effect

[Vlad G.]

If this does not answer your question, or you want spellchecking just without the auto-correct, you can go to system settings -> keyboard -> Text and uncheck auto-correct & first letter capitalization (Mac) or Settings -> Search spelling -> uncheck Auto-correct (Windows)

[froschfinger]

This actually helped me, thanks for pointing that out! I didn't know it was a dreadful Windows feature.