Spell-checking and language dictionaries, Check spelling, Set spelling preferences – Adobe InDesign CS5 User Manual
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Spell-checking and language dictionaries
Check spelling
You can spell-check a selected range of text, in all of the text in a story, in all stories in a document, or in all stories in
all open documents. Misspelled or unknown words, words typed twice in a row (such as “the the”), and words with
possible capitalization errors are highlighted. In addition to checking the spelling in a document, you can also enable
dynamic spelling so that potentially misspelled words are underlined while you type.
When you check spelling, the dictionary for the languages you assigned to the text is used. You can quickly add words
to the dictionary.
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Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
Set spelling preferences
1 Choose Edit > Preferences
> Spelling (Windows) or InDesign
> Preferences
> Spelling (Mac
OS).
2 Do any of the following:
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Select Misspelled Words to find words that do not appear in the language dictionary.
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Select Repeated Words to find duplicate words such as “the the.”
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Select Uncapitalized Words to find words (such as “germany”) that appear in the dictionary only as capitalized
words (“Germany”).
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Select Uncapitalized Sentences to find uncapitalized words following periods, exclamation points, and question
marks.
3 Select Enable Dynamic Spelling to underline potentially misspelled words while you type.
4 Specify the underline color of misspelled words (words not found in the user dictionaries), repeated words (such
as “the the”), uncapitalized words (such as “nigeria” instead of “Nigeria”), and uncapitalized sentences (sentences
that don’t begin with a capital letter).
Check spelling
1 If your document includes foreign-language text, select the text and use the Language menu on the Character panel
to specify the language for that text.
2 Choose Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling.
Spell-checking begins.
3 If you want to change the range of your spell-checking, do any of the following, and then click Start to begin
checking the spelling:
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Select Document to check the entire document. Select All Documents to check all open documents.
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Select Story to check all text in the currently selected frame, including text in other threaded text frames and overset
text. Select Stories to check stories in all selected frames.
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Select To End Of Story to check from the insertion point.
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Select Selection to check only selected text. This option is available only if text is selected.