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If you want to make the process of spell checking a document faster and easier, try enabling Dynamic Spelling in InDesign’s preferences.
With Dynamic Spelling enabled, you can use a contextual menu at your cursor to fix spelling mistakes. Using the dictionary associated with the language of the text, InDesign flags potential misspellings with colored underlines.
You can right-click on a flagged word to see and select suggested corrections (including options to delete repeated words and capitalize words).
You can also choose to add the word to a User Dictionary so it won’t be flagged as an error again.
Or you can select Ignore All to ignore the word in all documents until you restart InDesign.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on June 23, 2015
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