Selecting language and spellchecking

[PeeGeeBee]

Hi. I have a new document, with the language set to English (the choices seem to be US and English only, and I'm in Ireland so going with the British variant). However when I run the spellchecker it sees British variants (such as 'favour' as incorrect but ignores US variants such as 'favor' which are incorrect in this part of the world.

Is there a way to change the language for a document. I've seen, elsewhere, someone suggest changing the associated language of each individual text style: first off, they haven't explained how to do that and, more important perhaps, but the document has dozens of imported text styles so that sounds like a nightmare solution.

I'm guessing there must be a way to select and change everything or, at least, to 'force' the application to read for UK rather than US spelling, but I can't find it.

Thanks in advance for any help offered I can already see that Publisher is a terrific app but it's a bit of a challenge switching to it from InDesign which has become second nature.

[Pšenda]

29 minutes ago, PeeGeeBee said:

and I'm in Ireland

 

[Pšenda]

33 minutes ago, PeeGeeBee said:

I'm guessing there must be a way to select and change everything

Menu Select, Select object, Frame Text, and Character panel, Language, Spelling.

[walt.farrell]

What OS do you use, @PeeGeeBee, and what are your language settings for the OS?

[PeeGeeBee]

Thanks for the replies, both.

@walt.farrellI'm on Mac and have the system language set to British (which is the Mac way of specifying UK English, I guess). I've also set Publisher's language to English (as distinct from US English) and restarted the application as advised. However, I'm still getting queries for words spelling in the UK style (favour, colour) but not in the US style (favor, color). On top of that, I'm also being advised that I'm missing the dictionary for En-Ir (which I imagine is Irish English), though I don't know why it's flagging that as it's not even one of the Mac Os options, as far as I can see. (Thanks for helping to smooth out the learning curve

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, PeeGeeBee said:

However, I'm still getting queries for words spelling in the UK style (favour, colour) but not in the US style (favor, color). On top of that, I'm also being advised that I'm missing the dictionary for En-Ir

Did you create this document and text in Publisher on that machine, or import it from someplace else?

If you put the cursor in the text, and look at the Character panel, what Language setting for Spelling do you have?

[PeeGeeBee]

Thanks @Pšenda. I followed those links and there are no dictionaries there of Irish English (en-ir), nor do I think the differences between UK and IRL English are likely to be marked enough to have separate dictionaries.

Thanks, too,@walt.farrell. I didn't think the original document (yes, originally a Word document sent by a third party) would have a bearing on the issue, but perhaps that is what's happening. When I put the cursor in the text and go to the Character Panel, the Language is listed as English (neither UK English nor US English but just generic English -- perhaps that's what I want). Then, running the spellcheck, queries 'favor' (as I would hope) though not 'color'. It's quite confusing. Maybe I'm better off exporting the document into a Word or similar file and running spellcheck there. In any case, thanks again for your time.

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, PeeGeeBee said:

When I put the cursor in the text and go to the Character Panel, the Language is listed as English

 

1 hour ago, PeeGeeBee said:

On top of that, I'm also being advised that I'm missing the dictionary for En-Ir

I presume that warning is from Preflight?

If so, double-click on the warning message, and it should take you to the text with that Language specified. See what the Character panel Spelling Language shows for it.

[Pšenda]

19 hours ago, PeeGeeBee said:

Thanks @Pšenda. I followed those links and there are no dictionaries there of Irish English (en-ir), nor do I think the differences between UK and IRL English are likely to be marked enough to have separate dictionaries.

Yes, I couldn't find it when searching the internet either. But the interesting thing is that this dictionary is offered to you.

20 hours ago, PeeGeeBee said:

On top of that, I'm also being advised that I'm missing the dictionary for En-Ir (which I imagine is Irish English)

If the en_GB dictionary is closest to Irish English (en_IR), you can make a copy of it and rename it.

But en_IR is not a known language code, so it will be offered like this:

 

Edit: Try rename to en_IE

ISO 639-1 standard language codes:

Edited June 23, 2023 by Pšenda

[PeeGeeBee]

Many thanks for your thorough advice on this.

[Aliforce]

On 6/22/2023 at 6:23 PM, walt.farrell said:

Did you create this document and text in Publisher on that machine, or import it from someplace else?

If you put the cursor in the text, and look at the Character panel, what Language setting for Spelling do you have?

Thanks so much for this! It has been driving me mad today in a 500 page book I'm formatting. I checked everywhere except the Text Styles I'd set up. BINGO! Give yourself a gold star.