The problem is that with spell checking, it keeps flipping to French. \

[paulae77056175]

The problem is that with spell checking, it keeps

flipping to French. I went into preferences>dictionary and tried to

delete the French dictionary. It did not work. Closing and re-opening

the file did not help. Restarting the computer did not help. The spell

check might occasionally work in English for a page or so, then it

flips to French. It will not go back to English unless I let it sit

for at least a half-day. Then it will check a couple pages in English

and flip back.

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

The language setting is a Character-Level attribute.

Check all your Paragraph and Character styles, and change the Language attribute there to English. If that doesn't work,  Try doing a Find/Change to change the Language Attribute of all text to English (do this on a copy of the file, in case something goes wrong).

[Steve Werner]

The dictionary used in text is dependent on what language is applied to the text, either manually, or with a style.

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[rob day]

Because language is a character attribute sometimes it can be challenging to get every instance in a document—characters, paragraph styles, character styles table text, etc. If you are using OSX this Applescript will change everything to US English:

http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/TextEnglish.zip