

For example, I'll click out here, and you can see all the words that InDesign thinks are misspelled have a little red zigzag line under them. I like dynamic spelling because you can see at a glance whether something is spelled incorrectly. Now, I'm going to head back up to the edit menu, choose the spelling sub-menu again, but this time I'm going to chose dynamic spelling. In fact, let's go even closer by going command four or control four on Windows.
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I'm going to click the done button and you can see that it selected a word down here in this frame, so I'm going to zoom in on that by pressing command two on the Mac or control two on Windows. All right, instead of checking on word at a time, there's another way to check my spelling. So it's easier just to click on one of those and then click the change button. Now I could type the correct version here in this field, but you can see down here that InDesign is giving me a few suggested words. Now, in this case, this word is definitely wrong. By the way, I should point out that you can spell check either forward or backward through your document. I'll click add, and InDesign adds it to the user dictionary and then moves on to the next word. You can do that by clicking this add button down here. Now if you always want InDesign to think this word is spelled correctly, not just this time but tomorrow and next week and next month, then consider adding it to your user dictionary. In fact, not just in this check spelling, but every time you do a check spelling until you quit InDesign. Ignore all is like pressing skip for every instance that it finds. And I'm realizing this is going to get tiresome skipping that repeatedly. So I'm going to go ahead and click the skip button. This first word is bellflowers, which I know is correct.

And, it immediately starts showing me the suspect words. And as soon as you select that, up comes the check spelling dialogue box. Or, you could press command I on the Mac or control I on Windows. You can do that by going up to the edit menu, coming down to the spelling sub-menu, and then choosing check spelling. But before we send it to print, we'd better check the spelling. Now I have this long doc file open from my exercise files folder. I mean hey, that's what spell checking features are for, right? And fortunately, there's a good one built into InDesign. When opening existing documents which still have US English as the default language for text-boxes, simply open the document and repeat steps 2 and 3, making sure that no content is selected while you alter the Language settings.- Nobody spells everything right all the time. When you then create a new document, the default language for text boxes will be whatever you previously selected. In the Character tab, select the down arrow next to the Language and then select your language of choice.

This can be done by navigating to Type > Character via the menu bar, or by the keyboard shortcut (on a PC) of Ctrl+T.

So, how do you change the default setting to whatever language is more appropriate for your clients? Yet that’s the default language for text boxes in InDesign. If you’re an Adobe InDesign user and not based in the United States, then you probably don’t produce flyers, brochures and the like in American English.
