Cannot Spell Check due tro missing en-CA Dictionary even tho I want UK!

[aspqrz]

I want to spell-check an Affinity Publisher Document ... the Preferences are set to English UK but every time I try to check spelling I get told that 'Document contains languages (en-CA) for which no dictionary is installed.'

I have tried again and again to set it to UK English, yet the same message keeps coming up -- yet this is for a Dictionary which supposedly comes with the program!

I tried to installl an en-AU Dictionary as well (installed the dic and aff files from the relevant page/link given in the FAQ instructions) and installed it in the correct folder, and subfolder (en-AU) and have restarted the program over and over.

I never see the option to choose the Alternative AU dictionary and even trying to use the supposedly installed US Dictionary gives the same 'en-CA' error message.

What the heck am I doing wrong?

[NathanC]

Hi @aspqrz,

This could be caused by the default spelling language for text frames being set to en-CA, to change this to another language, try following the below:

1. Create a new text frame and select it
2. Go to the Character Panel (View > Studio > Character) and open up the Language Tab
3. Change the Spelling Language to English (United Kingdom)
4. Go to Edit > Defaults > Save

Going forward this should globally retain the new spelling language as UK English on all newly created text frames. If this is affecting an existing document you'll likely need to highlight all the frames and change this on the character panel as well.

[carl123]

19 minutes ago, NathanC said:

If this is affecting an existing document you'll likely need to highlight all the frames and change this on the character panel as well.

The Format (cog wheel) option under Text > Find has a language setting. So hopefully the OP can change the language (spelling) of the whole document to UK English, in one pass

[aspqrz]

Yep, that was the problem -- you'd think there was a global search/change function <sigh> so now I have to go through balmost 400 pages and change things.

Thanks for the assist

Phil

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, aspqrz said:

you'd think there was a global search/change function

There is, as @carl123 mentioned, via the Find and Replace panel in Publisher.