InDesign lets you choose the scope of a spell check in a Search menu at the bottom of the dialog. Searching a story instead of the document Solution: Select the text and specify the desired language. So, any words that have No Language specified will not be spell checked.Ĭlue: Put your cursor in the text and note the Language in the Check Spelling dialog or the Control panel. No Languageįor InDesign to check the spelling of a word, it needs to reference a specific language dictionary ( bleu is a misspelling in English but not in French). Solution: Choose Edit > InCopy > Check Out.īonus Tip: This is also why Find/Change might not work. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.Ĭlue: The frame adornment that looks like a globe and arrow telling you that the content is available for anyone to edit. You’re trying to spell check an InCopy story that isn’t checked out. So here are 5 reasons why InDesign’s spell check might not be working for you. Troubleshooting this little problem got me to thinking about some of the other reasons why spell check might malfunction-and that I should post them here in case it helps anyone else. Alas, I was working in Preview mode, so none of the frame adornments were visible. Normally, I would’ve noticed the InCopy icon on the text frame and avoided this confusion. Not exactly the results I was expecting.Įventually I figured out what was going on when I tried to edit the text-it was in an InCopy story that I didn’t have checked out. Change All was available but when I clicked it, I got the message that 0 replacements had been made.
When a suspect word was found and I clicked on one of the suggested replacements, the Change button was grayed out.
The other day I needed to spell check an InDesign document, and as soon as I started I could tell something wasn’t right.