Reply To: Edit User Dictionary – changes not 'taking'

Hi Dwayne,
Good ideas all. Wish this forum made it easy to add a screenshot, but I see no option for that so I won’t show you my settings.

I do see that all the words I entered are visible in the dictionary. I haven’t checked ‘case sensitive’ since I want the hyphenation to apply regardless of case.

I don’t know anything about ‘merge user dictionary into document’, but it sounds like something I wouldn’t want: I’m happy for the docs to refer to an outside, linked dictionary file. (Akin to linked graphics rather than embedded.)

I’ve opened InDesign numerous times since adding the words and it doesn’t seem to change.

However… I just noticed that my Hyphenation settings in the paragraphs are set to no break across columns. That may have accounted for the problem — will verify this tomorrow!

Cheers.