Learned spelling generates Preflight warning

[TitlesGuy]

When spellchecking one section of my book, I chose "Learn" for words that would occur frequently. That took away the Preflight spelling warnings.

Then I opened another section, and the learned words still generated warnings. I double-clicked a warning, which highlighted the word in question. When I ctrl-clicked the word, it brought up a menu with the option to "Unlearn" the word. That clearly wasn't what I wanted to do, but clicking it made the warnings go away. 

It seems logical to me that either "learned" words should not trigger a warning, or else the option should be to learn the word again, not unlearn it.

[MikeTO]

Spell checking is part of macOS and is buggy, it's not something Serif can fix. The Windows version of Affinity doesn't have the spell checking issues that plague the macOS version.

Sometimes macOS will flag a learned word as unknown and other times it will not flag an unknown word. Sometimes it will flag a word in Affinity but not in another app such as Pages, and other times it will be the reverse.

Sometimes you can right-click an unknown word and the Learn and Ignore options will be missing. Right-click repeatedly and eventually they will appear in the context menu.

It may seem that you only have the issues in Affinity but that's because you are likely dealing with longer passages of text in Affinity and the issues don't seem to arise as often with short passages of text. Apple needs to do a lot of work to fix spell check. I work around the issue by spell checking everything twice, once using macOS spell check in Affinity and once using Microsoft Word's spell checker. This means I need to many of the same words to the two user dictionaries, but it's worth it because Microsoft's spell checker is reliable.