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Checking spelling

Checking spelling

- [Instructor] Nobody spells everything right all the time. I mean, hey, that's what spell checking features are for. And fortunately, there's a good one built into InDesign. Now, I have this long doc file open from my Exercise files folder, but before we send it to print, we'd better check the spelling. You can do that by going up to the Edit menu, coming down to the Spelling sub-menu, and then choosing Check Spelling. Or you could press Command + I on the Mac or Control + I on Windows. As soon as you select that, up comes the check spelling dialogue box, and it immediately starts showing me the suspect words. The first word is bellflowers, which I know is correct, so I'm going to go ahead and click Skip. Now the same word appears again, and I'm realizing this is going to get tiresome, skipping that repeatedly. So instead, you could come down here and click Ignore All. Ignore All is like pressing Skip for every instance that it finds. In fact, not just now, but every time you do a…

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