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Inspiring
September 22, 2026
Question

Spell check doesn't find all that is wrong

  • September 22, 2026
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FrameMaker 2022

 

I spell check all files when I am converting them from FM7.2 to FM2022. The file that had the words below gave me nothing when I spell checked. But still there are words that are miss-spelled. So, I have to manually go through all the pages to look for the red squiggly lines. Is there a setting I have missed? Or a work-around?

 

 

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    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 25, 2026

    As this was a migration from FM7.2 (which supported only ASCII and some LATIN1 extensions) to FM2022 (which supports Unicode-BMP), I'm wondering is there's any possible issues arising from:
    ☐ allow-in-document embedded spelling dictionaries, or
    ☐ character encodings

    When opening a pre-FM8 document in FM8 or later, it does some Unicode conversion. This clearly includes internal-use characters, but I've never explored how document characters might be handled.

    If any of these Swedish characters were present, did their former \xHH codepoints get shifted to their U+HHHH Unicode codepoints?
    Å \x81 U+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
    å \x8c U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
    Ä \x80 U+00C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
    ä \x8a U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
    Ö \x85 U+00D6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
    ö \x9a U+00F6 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 23, 2026

    There is a chance these words were added to the Personal, Site, or Document dictionaries in the Spelling Checker.

    Use the Dictionary Functions to export the Document and Personal dictionaries and check for the words giving you trouble.

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2026

    I just checked, if text in text frames in anchored frames would not be spellchecked. Yes, spellcheck.

    In your screenshot the text is probably in text frames and therefore does have a paragraph format assigned. Can you check which paragraph format this is and which properties it has?

    Inspiring
    September 22, 2026

    Here is the one in the header of the table:
     

     

    Community Expert
    September 22, 2026

    OK. Then I think that your words are just not in the Swedish dictionary. Or in the Swedish dictionary they are spelled differently, e.g. two words or hyphen.

    You can easily add those words to your dictionary, so that they will not be marked as wrong.

    Community Expert
    September 22, 2026

    Hi,

    Are these words in real paragraphs with a paragraph format? Those have a language and can be spellchecked. Still it could be that the paragraph format has the language None assigned. Then the text would not be spellchecked.

    Or are these text lines without paragraph format? No spellcheck.

    Or does this text have a character format with language None assigned? No spellcheck.

    In your screenshot the text symbols are not shown. Always recommended!

    Best regards, Winfried

    Inspiring
    September 22, 2026

    Yes, they are in real paragraphs. The language is set to Swedish.

    I have other paragraphs where the spell check finds one word in a paragraph, but skips 2 other (same paragraph, same format). 

    Lena