InDesign capitalization question

I am in an InDesign document in which the name of the company (i.e., Yum!) is throughout. When I do a spell check it flags every word following that name as "uncapitalized" because the name has "!" in it. Is there a way to skip all instances it flags those uncapitalized words?

You can't add punctuation to the dictionary.
It's because of the exclamation point that this happens.
The only way I can think you can get past this is to go the preferences and under Spelling untick "capitalization errors".
This will ignore all capitalization errors.

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I had heard at a seminar there were some downloads for InDesign 2 which would make our life easier at the newspaper where I work. Where could I find them on the Adobe Web site?
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Peter,
given the current economic situation of most newspapers, it is reasonable to not replace 100s of working computers mainly used as typewriters, upgrade all software and push the staff thru retraining every other year, just to follow the latest fashion in software advances. Heavy metal people are used to think in 10 year or longer investment cycles.
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Next, please tell us your OS (Mac or Windows), and whether you're working with an editorial system and eventually which. Indicators are login windows, extra menus that are not in the regular manual and feel more like "business", newspaper specific rather than "creative".
There should also be some person at the help desk / user support or even management that knows these nifty details. Before you get into downloads and such, you should anyway talk to these people whether it is ok at all to install additional software.
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Plugins are modules created by programmers, the same way as internal InDesign functionality. Assuming you really have InDesign 2, back then there have been only few plugin developers with few products and even if you find them these old versions are most likely out of support. For example I had only two plugins for ID2 for image related tasks, and the earliest version that I have built in the past two years was InDesign 3 (CS). Another disadvantage of plugins is that they usually have a price tag - no free downloads off the Adobe site.
Scripts are written in simplified programming languages, often the authors are regular/advanced users. They also may come as source code so you could adjust them to your use. Note that InDesign 2 only supported AppleScript (Mac) or VisualBasic (Windows) while a large share of scripting is nowadays done in JavaScript which was introduced with InDesign 3.
You could definitely download example scripts in these languages from newer versions, strip out all the added functionality not supported by your version, adjust some more required changes and eventually end up with something useful. This of course depends on whether you can spend the effort (time) and go thru the learning curve to become a scripter. There is a dedicated forum for that next door. As you say you're relatively new, it helps to first know the program from the user side. Note there are books even covering such old versions - see eBay or Amazon.
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