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# NSTextCheckingController

```
class NSTextCheckingController
```

## Topics

### Initializers

[`-  initWithClient:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/init(client:))

### Instance Properties

[`client`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/client)

[`spellCheckerDocumentTag`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/spellCheckerDocumentTag)

### Instance Methods

[`-  changeSpelling:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/changeSpelling(_:))

[`-  checkSpelling:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/checkSpelling(_:))

[`-  checkTextInRange:types:options:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/checkText(in:types:options:))

[`-  checkTextInDocument:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/checkTextInDocument(_:))

[`-  checkTextInSelection:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/checkTextInSelection(_:))

[`-  considerTextCheckingForRange:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/considerTextChecking(for:))

[`-  didChangeSelectedRange`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/didChangeSelectedRange())

[`-  didChangeTextInRange:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/didChangeText(in:))

[`-  ignoreSpelling:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/ignoreSpelling(_:))

[`-  insertedTextInRange:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/insertedText(in:))

[`-  invalidate`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/invalidate())

[`-  menuAtIndex:clickedOnSelection:effectiveRange:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/menu(at:clickedOnSelection:effectiveRange:))

[`-  orderFrontSubstitutionsPanel:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/orderFrontSubstitutionsPanel(_:))

[`-  showGuessPanel:`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/showGuessPanel(_:))

[`-  updateCandidates`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/updateCandidates())

[`-  validAnnotations`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTextCheckingController/validAnnotations())

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`CVarArg`](/documentation/Swift/CVarArg)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`CustomDebugStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomDebugStringConvertible)

[`NSObjectProtocol`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObjectProtocol)

### Inherits From

[`NSObject-swift.class`](/documentation/ObjectiveC/NSObject-swift.class)

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