Spell-checking and language dictionaries – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Spell-checking and language dictionaries
Check spelling
Hyphenation and spelling 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.
Set spelling preferences
1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Spelling (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Spelling (Mac OS).
2. Do any of the following:
Select Misspelled Words to find words that do not appear in the language dictionary.
Select Repeated Words to find duplicate words such as “the the.”
Select Uncapitalized Words to find words (such as “germany”) that appear in the dictionary only as capitalized words (“Germany”).
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:
Select Document to check the entire document.Select All Documents to check all open documents.
Select Story to check all text in the currently selected frame, including text in other threaded text frames and overset text. Select Stories
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