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Dandalo
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September 27, 2022
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Misspelled words and find and replace tool and Grep

  • September 27, 2022
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Hi, anyone knows if it is possible to find misspelled words with find and replace tool?

Typing a grep command and find the "misspelled word"...

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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September 28, 2022

What is your goal here? Why is Spell Check not suitable?

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Edefaria
Participating Frequently
October 4, 2023

His goal, probably, was to locate all mispelled words and, automatically, give some caracter style for them. For those who make books – and I am one of them –, it will be good to have a way to do that.

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    Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
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    September 28, 2022

    Grep is not used normally for working with misspelled words. See the following article, it should help you figure out some alternate/better way to achieve what you are trying to do

    https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/spell-checking-language-dictionaries.html

    Also, if you could share what you are trying to do exactly then we could make some suggestions.

    -Manan

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    September 28, 2022

    Find/Replace will search for any string you give it, whether it's a correct word or a string of gibberish.

     

    I don't think any GREP or regex string can find words "flagged as mispelled" if that's what you mean.

     

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