Red underlining

[exegete77]

I have endured this long enough (old codger, and all!). Ever since I have upgraded to NWP 2 (2.0.2), about 70-90 % of the words are underlined in red. This especially occurs when pasting in from other documents (using CMD + SHIFT + V, so that I am not pasting in styles). But it would suggest that these words are all spelled incorrectly. Yet everyone is correctly spelled (see attachment). No other word processing program that I use has this problem (Mellel, LibreOffice, Papyrus, InDesign).

I have looked through the manual and every option I can think of in NWP menus and nothing helps or changes.

Being the old codger I am I am probably missing something simple... if so, it isn’t obvious to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[martin]

Those red underlines are indeed the markings used to indicate misspelled words. As you say, they look correctly spelled to me! The distribution looks quite strange: why mark "your" but not "compassionate"?

Well, there are a couple of things to check:

1. Make sure the language is set properly for your text. As you may know, languages in NWP are assigned just like fonts: one word can be marked in Spanish while an adjacent word might be marked as English. To check, select the word/text in question and look at the Language palette, Language menu, or other language indicators.

2. Make sure your language is configured to use the correct spelling dictionary. Even if you apply the English language to your text, it's possible your preferences have been set to use another kind of spelling dictionary. To check open up your NWP preferences, switch to the "Languages" pane, select your language from the list on the left, and then check the "Spelling" setting on the right.

Let me know if you have any questions, or neither of these solve your problem.

[exegete77]

Interestingly, the second one worked... but strangely, on the Language pane, the US English was selected on the left and US Spell Catcher was selected on the right, when all this shows the red underlining.

So I re-selected the English (US), then on the right I re-selected U.S. English (Spell Catcher). After clicking okay, it resolved. But it is strange that it was already set that way.

Well, I will keep monitoring.

Thanks, Martin. You have made an old codger happy... (yeah, I know, it doesn’t take much, does it?)

[martin]

I'm glad you have everything working, even if it doesn't quite add up. Maybe Spell Catcher got confused somehow. Anyways, if things are working and you're happy, I am too!