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Checking 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. InDesign highlights
misspelled or unknown words, words typed twice in a row (such as "the the"), and words
with possible capitalization errors.
When you check spelling, InDesign uses the dictionary for the languages you assigned to
the text in your document. (See
To check spelling in one or more documents:
1 To narrow your spell-checking, do one of the following:
Using the type tool, click in a text frame to check a story.
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Select text to check only the selection.
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Using the selection tool , select one or more frames to check one or more stories.
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2 Choose Edit > Check Spelling.
3 For Search, specify the range of your spell-checking: Document (checks the entire
document), All Documents (checks all open documents), Story (checks all threaded text
frames in story, including overset text), Stories (searches stories in all selected frames), To End
of Story (checks from the insertion point), or Selection (checks only selected text).
4 Click Start to begin checking the spelling.
5 When InDesign displays unfamiliar or misspelled words or other possible errors, choose
an option:
Click Ignore or Ignore All to continue spell-checking without changing a certain word.
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The word will be ignored until you restart InDesign.
Select a word from the Suggested Corrections list or type the correct word in the
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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.
Click Add to have InDesign store an acceptable but unrecognized word in the
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dictionary so that subsequent occurrences are not considered misspellings. See
"Working with hyphenation and spelling dictionaries" on page
Working with hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
By default, hyphenation and spelling rules are based on the dictionary for the language
specified for the text. When you customize the words in a dictionary, you actually create
exception lists of added words (words that aren't already in the dictionary) and removed
words (existing dictionary words you want InDesign to ignore).
By default, hyphenation and spelling exceptions are located only in user dictionary files
stored outside the document on the computer where InDesign is installed (dictionary
filenames end with the extensions .udc and .not). However, you can also store exception
lists inside any InDesign document. In addition, you can specify that the text-composition
engine composes text using the word list stored in the external user dictionary, the word
list stored in the current document, or both. Specify storage and composition settings in
the Dictionary panel of the Preferences dialog box.
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