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Choosing other languages

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Choosing other languages

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Habla espanol? Sprechen Sie Deutsch? If you speak another language, or more precisely, if you have to use text from another language inside InDesign, you should tell InDesign about it. After all, InDesign has spelling and hyphenation dictionaries for 3,000 different languages. Let me show you how you could do that. I'm going to Zoom In on the lower right corner of this exercise file by holding down Command+Spacebar or Ctrl+Spacebar in windows. I'll just drag in on one of these paragraphs and we can see at the bottom of this paragraph, there's some text, a phrase that's in Italian. I think it's "fonte di gioia" or something. I don't speak Italian, sorry. But I do know that it's not English, it's Italian. The problem is, is that if I do a spell check, this will show up as misspelled. Also, if it's at the end of the line, it may hyphenate incorrectly. So, I'm going to tell InDesign that this is Italian and those problems will go away. First, I'm going to go to the Edit menu, and from the…

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