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Check Spelling in Adobe Illustrator CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. This tutorial will show you how to check spelling in Adobe Illustrator CS6 in Windows 7.

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To begin, ensure that you have Adobe Illustrator open and your document ready
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We have shown you how to do this in other tutorials. In this video, an extract from a book has been imported. Although it is rare that Illustrator is used as a word processor, you may have text within your work if, for example, you are preparing a magazine page or web site. This is a very useful tool to have, which will save you time when working. Please note that you can only use the spell-checking feature for text that has not been rasterized, or flattened, into an image object. There is also find-and-replace function in Illustrator that is discussed in another VisiHow tutorial.

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Click the "Selection Tool" black arrow on the top left-hand side of the toolbar
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You may use different selection tools. There are other VisiHow tutorials on how to do that.

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If the text has not been selected, click the text
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A blue frame will appear around the edge of the text. The text will be available for editing.
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Click "Edit"
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Then, click "Check Spelling..."
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It is within the third section. You can also press "Ctrl" + "I" on the keyboard. Once the pop-up box has appeared, there will be the "Ready To Start" box. This is where any misspelt words appear. The box below, "Suggestions", will be where Illustrator recommends replacements.
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To begin, click "Start"
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In this video, the spellchecker has found the word "Maycomb", which is spelt correctly, because it's a name of a town. There will be suggestions in the "Suggestion" box.

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You can click "Ignore" to ignore the spellchecker suggestions
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This will show the next word in question. The next word the spellchecker has found is "slop", which, it suggests, needs capitalizing owing to the line break before it.
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You can click "Ignore"
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Alternatively, if you agree, simply click the correct suggestion within the "Suggestion" box
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Then, confirm the change by clicking "Change" at the right-hand side
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You may continue checking the text.
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Once you've finished, you can click "Done" to return to the document
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