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InDesign CC - Spell check not working.

New Here ,
Sep 03, 2013 Sep 03, 2013

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I can purposefully type a misspelled word in InDesign and the Spell Check doesn't catch it. In fact it doesn't seem to work at all.

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Participant , Feb 24, 2016 Feb 24, 2016

As is often the case, the answer is simple. I find a lot of people jump to things like entering code in the terminal and the like. I had the problem and someone posted that You simply have to exit preview mode. "w" (when your cursor is not typing text, otherwise escape then w) will bring it up. Presto, dynamic spell check is working.

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Participant ,
Feb 24, 2016 Feb 24, 2016

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Dang. Sorry to hear that.

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Community Expert ,
Aug 18, 2019 Aug 18, 2019

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Most bizarre solution, but it works. Thanks David,

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New Here ,
Jul 20, 2016 Jul 20, 2016

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Turning on preview mode (pressing "W") worked for me! Thank you!

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New Here ,
Aug 29, 2016 Aug 29, 2016

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Having the same issue here as well.  Checked everything, reset preferences, Spell Check is just not working.  Going to try re-istalling InDesign.  Will update.

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New Here ,
Aug 29, 2016 Aug 29, 2016

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Un-install/re-install seems to have fixed the issue.  I will post if the problem reoccurs.

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New Here ,
Sep 08, 2016 Sep 08, 2016

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I too have had this problem--Spell Check working in some docs and not in others. The only thing I can figure is that some of the files are older than others, but still not something that should create a problem for a Spell Check.

The fix I found was simply to do a Save As of the file, making a copy of it, and then restarting the App. The new file spell-checked in the normal manner (i.e., actually locating misspelled words).

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New Here ,
Aug 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017

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Hey go to to View > Screen Mode

Make sure that you have 'Normal' selected and not 'Preview'

Just worked for me

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018

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I just worked on a big document and knew there was a specific word incorrectly spelt after being picked up by someone, so went back to runt he spell check again and out of 40+ pages it was only showing 4-5 incorrect words on one page that were just funny surnames of people. I question how many other incorrect words it missed along the way...

In general InDesign 2018 is the. worst.

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Participant ,
Mar 17, 2018 Mar 17, 2018

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PROPOSAL:  Really has consistently caused problems that the Dynamic spell check only shows when you are NOT in "Preview Mode".  Many many documents went out with typos because you assume the dynamic check was on - when in fact you were in preview mode... ore worse forgot that you toggled back.  There should be a poll or something - Who would NOT want to see a typo indicated ?   Anyway, it took about an hour to figure out that this was even the case - after questioning my own sanity, and the effectiveness of the spell checker for months...  #nightmare default protocol.   Why not make persistent spell check an option in the preferences OR in the spell check menu?

Cheers David

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Explorer ,
Oct 13, 2019 Oct 13, 2019

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October 2019- still happening

In word if i turn autocorrect on it works, what's going on here?

Please don't repeat all the "fixes" on the net- been there done that

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New Here ,
Oct 15, 2019 Oct 15, 2019

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Something that worked for me was checking that the dictionary in preferences was set to the same dictionary as that of the paragraph style. For example, I had English-UK at the preference level then, English-AUS at the paragraph style. I changed both to UK and it starting underlining mistakes again.

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New Here ,
Nov 10, 2019 Nov 10, 2019

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I should add: after making the dictionary fix, toggle your dynamic spelling off and then on agsin (Edit > Spelling > Dynamic spelling) that should 'wake it up'.

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 05, 2019 Dec 05, 2019

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I have given up with it, why make it complicated , i now type in ms Word brilliant autocorret and thesaurus, copy and paste it over

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 06, 2019 Nov 06, 2019

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ARGH!!!!! I jsut found a tab in preferences called: Enable Dynamic Spelling that was not checked!!!!! Did you try this?

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 06, 2019 Nov 06, 2019

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nope, that didn't work either. I have been havving the same problem since cc upgrade.

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Explorer ,
Nov 06, 2019 Nov 06, 2019

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Not sure why but after a restart (pc) it began working and has continued to work with the 400+ files i work with

So solved for me but not sure why it wasn't previously

Current tabs

Edit--> Preferences --> Spelling --> all buttons clicked

Edit--> Preferences --> Autocorrect --> enabled autocorrect

Edit--> Preferences --> Dictionary--> language english UK, hyphenation and spelling "hunspell", compose using "user dictionary and coument", all other buttons clicked

 

Good luck all

 

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 06, 2019 Nov 06, 2019

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Actually, I looked at the link to my dictionary, and discovered that I don't think my cloud subscription downloaded the dictionary, which means indesign would like me to relink my dictionary, only I don't have the dictionary file on my system, and since it wiped out my old dictionary when it did the upgrade, as best I can tell. I looked for the dictionary file online, and I am not finding it. Very frustrating!!!!

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 27, 2020 Mar 27, 2020

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This worked for me! I tried some of the other suggestions, but no luck.

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New Here ,
Nov 07, 2019 Nov 07, 2019

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These are the steps you should take:

1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Spelling and check the box for Enable Dynamic Spelling 

2. Go to Edit > Spelling and make sure there is a checkmark next to Dynamic Spelling

3. Make sure you are in Normal mode, not Preview! (Shortcut key is W, or click and hold the very last icon on the toolbar on the left.)

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New Here ,
Apr 04, 2020 Apr 04, 2020

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W still didn't work for me.

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Community Beginner ,
May 05, 2020 May 05, 2020

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Everybody, all I had to do was the following:

 

Go to PREFERENCES > DICTIONARY. In the boxes labeled  HYPHENATION and SPELLING use the pull-down to change to Hunspell.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020

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Thanks so much! FYI this worked for me AFTER restarting my Mac. Changing the prefs to Hunspell before that didn't work.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020

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Edit > Spelling > enable dynamic spelling.

cleared the problem right up

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020

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Cheers it worked 🙂

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020

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Anytime, glad to help

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