One that’d document would be handy for something corporate that’s filled with unique-to-one-company terms. One that’s project-specific would be great for work like those Morris books. One that document specific would be great for a book that has legitimate but quirky spelling. Why, I ask myself, can’t Adobe and a host of other malefactors give us added options other than than one, enduring-forever spelling list. There were lots of such words tagged as misspelled, and yet if I added them to my user dictionary, they’d be around forever, perhaps keeping me from spotting a misspelling years later. My gripe first came up when I did a several William Morris books (i.e The House of the Wolfings) that were written in fake medieval English. For ages, one of my pet peeves with InDesign (and Framemaker before it) was the lack of a document or perhaps project-specific under dictionary. Or you can select Ignore All to ignore the word in all documents until you restart InDesign.” Quote: “You can also choose to add the word to a User Dictionary so it won’t be flagged as an error again. Or you can select Ignore All to ignore the word in all documents until you restart InDesign. You can also choose to add the word to a User Dictionary so it won’t be flagged as an error again. You can right-click on a flagged word to see and select suggested corrections (including options to delete repeated words and capitalize words). Using the dictionary associated with the language of the text, InDesign flags potential misspellings with colored underlines.

With Dynamic Spelling enabled, you can use a contextual menu at your cursor to fix spelling mistakes. If you want to make the process of spell checking a document faster and easier, try enabling Dynamic Spelling in InDesign’s preferences. Just scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Go! We’ll take care of the rest. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on June 18, 2015.

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