Spelling check uses wrong language while typing: SOLVED

[stuartbarry]

I received an inDesign template that originated in Germany. I opened it with no problems and could manipulate pages and so on, but when I entered text it flagged nearly every word as an error. The clickover spellings were all in German. I changed the default language to English, but it is took several re-starts for it to take effect, and then only when I had no document open. I re-opened my original document and the clickover suggestions are still in German. The default language is showing English and if I ask for a spelling suggestion it gives me an English dictionary option. Running a full spell check still gives German spelling option on clickover. Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Edited January 3, 2021 by stuartbarry
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[walt.farrell]

The Spelling Language for an existing document you open would be specified in the text style assigned to a word or to a paragraph.

If something has no text style assigned the spelling language would (I think) come from the language specified in the Affinity Preferences for the User Interface language.

[stuartbarry]

I looked all over but could not see anything linking text, word or text frame to a language. I tried removing a link from a master page, so that it was standalone, but no joy. My default language in Publisher preferences is English, as is my system preferences. If I try the following I get strange results.

Creat a text frame. Type in: This should be checked in English.

'should' and 'checked' are underlined as I type. If I ctl click on 'should' or 'checked' I get a list of German words as suggestions. Doing the same on the non-underlined words produces no suggestions. For all of the words, if I right click and look up the word the English dictionary is opened in all cases. So there is no consistency. Running 'check spelling' also picks out those 2 words, even though some of the other words are not German.

 

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, stuartbarry said:

Creat a text frame. Type in: This should be checked in English.

'should' and 'checked' are underlined as I type. If I ctl click on 'should' or 'checked' I get a list of German words as suggestions.

Was this in a new document, or in the InDesign template you Opened? If it's from that template your document default is coming from there.

With the cursor in your text, look in the Character panel, Language section. What language is specified for Spelling?

[stuartbarry]

I have just found the solution. Paragraph styles does have a language option that was set to German. I tried it on one area and worked and am now going through the document to ensure that all paragraph styles are set to English.

Sorry for the false alarm, but the solution was buried in the style box. I found it after going through one of the Affinity video. It did not point out our this particular issue but got me looking in the right area.