Spell checker: is it possible to ignore words in UPPERCASE?

I design technical documents that are filled with unusual characters, units, abbreviations and codes that contain numbers, and the scrambled letters. At the moment I'm just add hundreds of words to the dictionary, but it seems crazy to have to add things like ºC or AC/DC to the dictionary.

I was wondering if InDesign had a similar to the MS Word option "ignore words in UPPERCASE"? This is a very convenient feature and something that I can't find in the dictionary/spelling InDesign preferences menus. Are there? Is there a solution?

Appreciate any help

See you soon,.

Rach

If it is not in the preferences, it is not there. There are no hidden options (or not much, not for spelling, I know).

One solution might be to change the language of all words in capitals... How is it that would help me? Well: the words in the language [No. Language] are not mistakes (and maybe bad side effect is that it is cut - so bothers you, replace [No. language] with your after spell check).

Use GREP, you can search for words all in capital letters, but your GREP expression may need some thinking in the future. In its simplest form

\b\u+\b

(with nothing in the change field and the change of Format advanced character formats the value: language: [No. language]) that will do exactly what you were asking. Slash reverse-BS are word boundaries and inbetween it seeks any length of characters to uppercase (\u).

GREP may need tinkering since it will find "CO2", for example (of perhaps one in the dictionary).

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