Checking for spelling errors
The Check Spelling command locates misspelled words in a document and offers a list of alternative spellings. Illustrator can check for spelling errors in a variety of languages, based on the language that you assign to words. (See Assigning a language.) If Illustrator has incorrectly identified a word as misspelled, you can either ignore the word without changing it in the file or add the word to the dictionary list. You can customize this list of words using the Edit Custom Dictionary command.
To check the spelling in a document: - Choose Edit > Check Spelling.
- To view options for finding and ignoring words, click the arrow icon at the bottom of the dialog box. If desired, select any of the following Find options:
- Repeated Words to find repeated words in the document.
- Uncapitalized Start of Sentence to find uncapitalized words at the start of sentences.
If desired, select any of the following Ignore options: - Words that are Uppercase to ignore words that have all uppercase characters.
- Roman Numerals to ignore roman numerals in the text.
- Words with Numbers to ignore words that include numbers.
- Click Start to begin checking the spelling.
- When Illustrator displays misspelled words or other possible errors, do one of the following:
- Click Ignore or Ignore All to continue spell-checking without changing a certain word.
- Select a word from the Suggestions list or type the correct word in the top text box, and then click Change to change only that occurrence of the misspelled word. You can also click Change All to change all occurrences of the misspelled word in your document.
- Click Add to have Illustrator store an acceptable but unrecognized word in the dictionary so that subsequent occurrences are not considered misspellings.
- When Illustrator finishes checking your document, click Done to close the spell check window.
To edit the spelling dictionary: - Choose Edit > Edit Custom Dictionary.
- Do any of the following, and click Done:
- To add a word to the dictionary, type the word in the Entry text box, and click Add.
- To remove a word from the dictionary, select the word in the list, and click Delete.
- To modify a word in the dictionary, select the word in the list. Then type the new word in the Entry text box, and click Change.
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