Can't change language in autocorrect. Why?

[nilleg57851248]

I have made a document in english, but with norwegian in the preference autocorrect. I changed that to english, UK .

But still, in the document, the autocorrect try to correct from norwegian. Why?

I have even restartet my mac, but get same problem.

[winterm · Accepted solution]

Your actual text must have correct language applied. You can find this setting in Paragraph/Character Style Options, Advanced Character Formats section. Or apply correct language manually, using Character or Control panels (this will override style settings).

InDesign doesn’t detect correct language automatically.

EDIT:

BTW, if all your texts in a given document are in English, you can use this simple javascript one-liner to change language globally, in one click:

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().appliedLanguage="English: UK";

This script will apply defined language to all text in an active document, including groups, tables and overset text.

It won't touch footnotes, though.

[nilleg57851248]

Thank you 🙂

Just a little thing: I could not do it on the text I had already written directly. But I cut & pasted it and then it all worked out perfectly.

You made my day 😄

[winterm]

nilleg57851248  wrote

I could not do it on the text I had already written directly.

You must be able to do this!

If your text has some style applied, just change language setting in the style options.

If you aren't using styles (not recommended!) you can select text, and apply Englisk UK using Control panel.

The script I provided also works for all existing text in a document. If you add some English text later, using Norwegian, you can just re-run script. It won't do any harm, just replace all non-English language settings to English UK.

Good luck!