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Check spelling
You
can check the spelling in 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 running a spelling check,
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- Choose Edit > Preferences >
Spelling (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences >
Spelling (Mac OS).
- 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.
- Select Enable Dynamic Spelling to underline potentially
misspelled words while you type.
- 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- 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.
- Choose Edit > Spelling > Check
Spelling.
Spell-checking begins.
- 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 to check stories in all selected frames.
Select To End Of Story to check from the insertion
point.
Select Selection to check only selected text. This
option is available only if text is selected.
- When unfamiliar or misspelled words or other possible
errors are displayed, choose an option:
Click Skip to continue spell-checking without
changing the highlighted word. Click Ignore All to ignore all occurrences
of the highlighted word, until InDesign is
restarted.
Select a word from the Suggested Corrections list
or type the correct word in the Change To box, and then click Change
to change only that occurrence of the misspelled word. You can also
click Change All to change all occurrences of the misspelled word
in your document.
To add a word to a dictionary, select the dictionary
from the Add To menu, and click Add.
Click Dictionary to display the Dictionary dialog
box, where you can specify the target dictionary and language, and
specify hyphenation breaks in the added word. If you want to add
the word to all languages, choose All Languages from the Language
menu. Click Add.
Correct spelling errors as you typeBy turning on Autocorrect, you can
allow capitalization errors and common typing mistakes to be replaced
while you type. Before Autocorrect will work, you must create a
list of commonly misspelled words and associate them with the correct
spelling.
- Choose Edit > Preferences >
Autocorrect (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences >
Autocorrect (Mac OS).
- Choose Enable Autocorrect. (You can also choose Edit >
Spelling > Autocorrect to turn this feature on or off
quickly.)
- From the Language menu, choose which language the autocorrections
are applied to.
- To correct capitalization errors (such as typing “germany”
instead of “Germany”), select Autocorrect Capitalization Errors.
You don’t need to add the capitalized words to the list of autocorrections.
- To add a word that you commonly misspell, click Add,
type the misspelled word (such as “teh”), type the correction (such
as “the”), and then click OK.
- Continue to add words that you commonly misspell, and
then click OK.
When you type any misspelled word you added to the list,
the word is automatically replaced by the word you entered as the
correction.
To remove autocorrect words you’ve added, select
the word in the list and choose Remove. To edit autocorrect words,
select the word, retype the correction, and click OK.
Use dynamic spellingWhen dynamic spelling is enabled, you can correct
spelling errors by using the context menu. Potentially misspelled
words are underlined (based on the dictionary associated with the
language of the text). If you type text in different languages,
select the text and assign the correct language.
- To enable dynamic spelling, choose Edit >
Spelling > Dynamic Spelling.
Potentially misspelled words are underlined in your document.
- Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS)
the underlined word, and do one of the following:
Select a suggested correction. If a word
is repeated or needs to be capitalized, you can choose Delete Repeated
Word [word] or Capitalize [word].
Select Add [word] To User Dictionary. This
automatically adds the word to the current dictionary without opening
the Dictionary dialog box. The word remains unchanged in the text.
Select Dictionary. This opens the Dictionary dialog
box where you can select the Target dictionary, change hyphenation
breaks, and specify a language. If you want to add the word to all
languages, choose All Languages from the Language menu, and then
click Add. The word is added to the selected dictionary and remains
unchanged in the text.
Select Ignore All to ignore occurrences of this
word in all documents. When InDesign is
restarted, the word is flagged again as a misspelling.
Note: If you select Ignore All and then decide that you
don’t want to ignore that word after all, Choose Ignored Words from
the Dictionary List menu in the Dictionary dialog box and remove
the word from the list.
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