How to add InDesign Dictionaries to your workspace

Open 'Dictionaries' window

Click 'Settings > Dictionaries' to open the 'Dictionaries' window.

'Add default dictionaries'

Click 'New > Add default dictionaries'.

NOTE:

There can only be one dictionary per language. If any custom dictionaries exist that have the same language as a default InDesign dictionary, then that default InDesign dictionary cannot be installed.

Therefore, if you wish to install all of the default InDesign dictionaries, you will need to do one of the following:

• install the default dictionaries before you have created any custom dictionaries
• ensure that your custom dictionaries have different languages to the default InDesign dictionaries
• delete the relevant custom dictionaries before you add the default InDesign dictionaries

Default dictionaries appear

The InDesign dictionaries are now listed in the 'Dictionaries' window.

Add new words to an existing dictionary

Words can be manually added to a dictionary via the 'Learned Words' tab of the 'Dictionary Details' window (double-click a dictionary to edit it).

1. Select the 'Learned Words' tab.
2. Click the 'Add Word' button.
3. Type the word you want to add to the dictionary in the empty space that appeared.
4. Click 'Apply' or 'Save'.

NOTE:

Any word listed in the 'Words' window can be deleted by clicking the red 'X' next to it.

Adding popular user words to an existing dictionary

Any word/spelling that a user has selected to 'remember' (i.e. in their own personal dictionary) will appear in the 'Popular' column of the 'Learned Words' tab (double-click a dictionary to edit it).

Such words/spellings can be added to the permanent dictionary, meaning that they will be available for all users.

1. Select the 'Learned Words' tab.
2. Click the green '+' next to the word that you wish to permanently add to the dictionary.
3. Click 'Apply' or 'Save'.

NOTE:

It is also possible to drag-and-drop the words from the 'Popular' column to the 'Words' column.