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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. So, I have this long document file open from my exercise files folder, but before we send this to print, we'd better check the spelling. And you can do that by going 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. And as soon as you select that, up comes the check spelling dialogue box and it immediately starts showing me the suspect words. This 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 click ignore all. Ignore all is like pressing skip for every instance that it…

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