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Daniel Geiger
Inspiring
December 1, 2024
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Wildcards in spellcheck user dictionary?

  • December 1, 2024
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Is it possible to use wildcart in user dictionary of InDesign?

I use scientific literature citations with year and letter for multiple references by a given author in a given year: 2024a, 2024b etc. Those are flagged as potential missspellings. I would like to add something like

\d\d\d\d\. to the user dictionary.

However, I get error that dictionary words can only contain period as punctuation.

The goal is that spellcheck will ignore all four-digits plus one letter "words", without me having to add every single possible combination manually to the user dictionary.

Thanks!

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Correct answer Willi Adelberger

GREP like wildcards are not possible to add to any dictionary.

But you can tag them as [No Language] property. But this can be done automatically via GREP style.

 

  1. Create a Character Style with the [No Language] property.
  2. Create a GREP style in your paragraph style where the Character Style is applied automatically.

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Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 1, 2024

GREP like wildcards are not possible to add to any dictionary.

But you can tag them as [No Language] property. But this can be done automatically via GREP style.

 

  1. Create a Character Style with the [No Language] property.
  2. Create a GREP style in your paragraph style where the Character Style is applied automatically.
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    Daniel GeigerAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 8, 2024

    Thanks! That worked very well. I've used the no-language in character styles before to force no hyphenation in scientific genus-species names.

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