HunterGrafiska Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Hi there! I am on Mac Desktop, Affinity Publisher 1.7.3 and OS 10.14.6. Currently working on a book and the spell checker is playing up. The book is about 400 pages long. The other day I started a new spell check which worked fine until page 81. There is got stuck on a word (A name: Gatland). With the "spelling options" window open it will not let me Find next, Ignore or Learn. Define brings up a pop up window with info about the person. My only other option is to Change. A bit strange after 80 pages of no problems. If I give up and press Change, it changes it to Garland and moves to the next word. The next word is in Swedish and behaves in the same way. None of the necessary buttons work and, as the word is foreign it has no suggested replacements, which means Change does not work either. So I am stuck and can not continue the spell checking in any way. I have reinstalled the software from a new Download, Save As the file to a new document, viewed it in Designer persona, saved and gone back to Publisher. Selected other text in the document but apparently it always starts the spell check from the first error in the document irrelevant to what is selected or where the cursor is. Right clicking on the word and selecting Learn does not help either. So there seems to be no way for me to move forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterGrafiska Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 I copied the text and started a brand new document. Pasted it in and ran the spell checker again. Stepping through from the start and ignoring a fair number of the foreign words. Whizzing past the words I previously got stuck on only to get stuck in the same manner 5-10 words later. So there does not seem to be anything specific about the words themselves. Perhaps some kind of limit to the amount of ignored or learnt words? As in a bug, not a set limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 11, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 11, 2019 Hi HunterGrafiska, Welcome to the forums If possible could you provide one of the problem files in question so I can try this at my end? Thanks C HunterGrafiska 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 I don't have a solution to your problem, but a suggestion that may help in general, if you're using a lot of foreign words that you don't want to spellcheck. You could define a Character Text Style with the Spelling Language set to None. Then, as you're composing your text and have a foreign word, you could assign that Character Text Style to it, and it would be ignored during your spellchecking process. HunterGrafiska 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterGrafiska Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 Not sure of the best manner to send the file but here it is. Exiles_book_2.afpub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.