Removing Spelling Mistakes from the Preflight panel without Ignoring or Learning

[joe_l]

OK, this is a bit freaky, coming from a lazy one who dislikes even blanks at the end of paragraphs.

Imagine you have to work with long lists / tables of words no dictionary could possibly know, but you don't want the Spelling Mistakes to appear in the Preflight Panel.

You can now mark every "wrong" word and ignore / learn it, which could be a tedious work with lots of spelling mistakes.

The easy way: Just select the text frame or paragraphs and set Spelling to None in the Character panel. So all "wrong" words magically disappear from the Preflight panel.

You can still set the hyphenation to your desired language or use this method within Text Styles. Drawback of course is, that there could be mistakes in your text.

[MikeTO]

Hi Joe, you're advising to disable spell checking to get rid of Preflight errors but as you've pointed out that means you wouldn't know of other spelling mistakes.

If you don't want to see the spelling mistakes flagged in Preflight but do want to keep the red squiggles to watch for typos, just edit your Preflight profile. Click the menu icon to the right of the Profile list, click Spelling in the left pane, and change the Warning Level from Warning to Disabled.

Cheers

[MikeTO]

@joe_l One other reason why turning off spell checking just to hide the Preflight warnings should be avoided - you will lose OpenType features for many fonts. For example, if you formatted your text with Arial you would lose ligatures, fractions, and true superscripts. With some fonts you would lose much more. This won't happen with all fonts because it depends on how these special characters are created, but it will with a lot of fonts.

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

This won't happen with all fonts because it depends on how these special characters are created, but it will with a lot of fonts.

Isn't that only a problem if you set Spelling Language to None and also have Typography Language set to Auto? Just set Typography Language to a specific language and that should avoid the issue.

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Isn't that only a problem if you set Spelling Language to None and also have Typography Language set to Auto? Just set Typography Language to a specific language and that should avoid the issue.

I think you mean Typography Script. For many fonts there are no Typography Languages to choose from and typically languages such as English aren't listed. But yes, if you set Spelling Language to None and Typography Script to Latin then you normally get the Typography options.