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033 Importing a custom dictionary

033 Importing a custom dictionary - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

033 Importing a custom dictionary

So you may not know that lynda.com recording studios are actually in California, and I live in Chicago. It's always so cool to come to California and I have come so often to record videos at lynda.com, or to do seminars, or visit friends in San Francisco and Napa Valley, that I've become quite interested in the history of California. So I came across this document that I was reading in InDesign, that had the early history of San Francisco and a couple of things caught my eye. For example, The first Europeans, including the David Blatner clan; obviously this is not completely 100% historically accurate portrayal of this. No, obviously I put that in here, because what I want to show you is that there is a problem with this document that I will teach you how to solve in the video. And the problem is that there are a ton of words that are not in InDesign's default dictionary. If I go to the Edit menu, go down to Spelling and turn on Dynamic Spelling, which is my favorite way to check…

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