Ken Hjulstrom Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Hi, 'm working on a document in Publisher 2. My UI is English (US), but the document contents need to conform to UK English. In the previous version of Publisher, I was able to set UK English as the default spell-check dictionary for an entire document, but in Publisher 2, the only place I can find that lets me specify the language dictionary is in the "Characters" panel, but this seems to only allow me to set the dictionary for selected characters. My document contains hundreds of text frames, so it's going to be rather tedious to set the language dictionary for each text frame one-by-one. Is there a place where I can set a language dictionary for the entire document, and only use the setting in the "Characters" panel for text that's in a language other than the default document dictionary? Thanks, Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 You would think it would be an option under File > Document Setup... and on the Document Tab but I have come to the same conclusion as you, it's an option of the Character Panel. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 6 minutes ago, firstdefence said: it's an option of the Character Panel. What about Select > Select Object > Frame Text and then use the Character panel to change all text frames to the desired language? I tried this on a very large document and the selection unfortunately jumped to a blank entry, but it worked on a smaller document. Maybe @Ken Hjulstrom has more luck. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Don't text styles applied to text contain a language setting? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 3 hours ago, carl123 said: Don't text styles applied to text contain a language setting? Yes, they do. And making use of Text Styles is the best way to go. 5 hours ago, Ken Hjulstrom said: In the previous version of Publisher, I was able to set UK English as the default spell-check dictionary for an entire document, Nothing has changed in V2 in this area that I'm aware of. So, if you were able to do it in V1 you should be able to do it in V2. What did you do before? 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Hjulstrom Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 6 hours ago, carl123 said: Don't text styles applied to text contain a language setting? Yes, you're right! Thanks for much for letting me know. Fortunately, I've set up a rather comprehensive hierarchy of styles for the documents I typically create, so I was able to edit the "base" style (the style that all of the subordinate styles inherit from) to use the "English (United Kingdom)" dictionary. In the "Edit Text Style" dialog, the dictionary setting is located at "Character" | "Language" | "Spelling". I verified that this worked by displaying the Preflight "Spelling Mistakes". When I changed the dictionary to "English (United Kingdom)", all of the UK-spelled words that were displayed in the Preflight error list disappeared. Thanks again! Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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