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katielady1
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June 7, 2023
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InDesign Spellcheck not catching a typo involving a comma

  • June 7, 2023
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InDesign spellcheck is not flagging this in the example below, "red,shiny,"

It's missing a space after the "," I'm curious why it doesn't flag it. 

The apple is red,shiny, and delicious.

 

Screenshot below that shows the dynamic spelling turned on. Also, doesn't get flagged in regular spellcheck.
Dictonary is English USA and Hunspell is being used in the Spelling preferences. Thanks!

 

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    Correct answer Jeffrey_Smith

    GREP Search

    Find: (?<=\,)[\l\u]

    Replace: $0

     

    Note: Find is looking for any letter that is followed by a comma. $0 is "found" and is replacing the found letter along with a "space" before the letter.  A "space" needs to be entered before $0.

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    CC TPA
    Participant
    July 28, 2023

    Yeah, just discovering this now. I guess this GREP search is a solution but I wouldn't call it a a good one.

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    Jeffrey_SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 7, 2023

    Indesign spell check is detecting commas, spaces, pipes etc. as a separation between words. In this example: red,shiney Indesign will detect "shiney" mispelled.

     

    You could perform a GREP search first, looking for [comma] [no space] [any character] to fix this error before the spellcheck.

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      katielady1Author
      Inspiring
      June 7, 2023

      Ahh. Thank you for explaining! I appreciate it.

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