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I am running the spell checker from Text -> Spelling -> Spelling Options....

The Spell Checker window comes up at the first misspelled word.  From this point it stops.  I can click on any of the buttons but nothing happens.  It stays on the first word even though I can see other words underlined in red in the next line.

I am running Affinity Publisher 1.7.3 on a Mac mini running under macOS Mojave 10.14.6. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Frank Lehmann

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You can click on the choices shown below or type in the spelling you think is correct and click the Change button, it should then jump to the next mis-spelling.

https://affinity.help/publisher/English.lproj/pages/Text/spelling.html

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I'm still having the same problem, even after reinstalling Publisher.

Here's what I'm doing -

(1) I open up the spell checking option:   Text -> Spelling -> Spelling Options....

(2) A new window opens up labeled "Spelling". The first field has the first misspelled word (a proper name).  The word in the field is highlighted both in the spell checker's first field and in the document.  Below this field is a second field with two suggestions.

(3) From here I've tried several options: Leaving the first field highlighted, I click on any one of the buttons to the right for "Change" , "Find Next", etc.  When I click on any one of these the "button" dims for a second and the word in the first field flickers but does not change.  Clicking "Find Next" does the same.  It leaves the initial misspelled word in the first field but does not move on to the next.

(4) After step (2) I have also tried un-highlighting the first misspelled word, retyping the misspelled word, and choosing one of the suggestions.  After each of these nothing happens and I'm still stuck on the first word.  I'm attaching a screen shot of the spelling window.

I'd really appreciate any help figuring this out.

Frank Lehmann

Screen Shot 2019-12-24 at 10.37.38 AM.png

Posted

There was at least one bug fixed in the Publisher 1.8 beta related to not learning misspelled words that originated on a master page.

So, as an experiment, you might try installing the beta (which you can find here), opening a copy of your document in the beta, and seeing if your problem is resolved in the beta.

-- Walt
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Walt,

Thank you so much.  I'll follow up on your suggestion.  It seems that not having the Spell Checker work correctly should be a major bug that Affinity should fix in their next release -- if not sooner.

As a follow up question -- is there a way to make the highlighting more pronounced?  Doing a search for "-" left me hunting for a dash highlighted in light blue.  Not easy to find. I ended up typing "ZZZZZZZ" and looked for where the z's started appearing.

Thanks again for the help,

Frank

Lehmann Bindery

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1 minute ago, Lehmann Bindery said:

As a follow up question -- is there a way to make the highlighting more pronounced?  Doing a search for "-" left me hunting for a dash highlighted in light blue.

Not that I know of.

Zooming in may help, though.

-- 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 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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