InDesign spell check and apostrophes

I'm trying to spell check a long document, and the most frustrating thing is that the spellchecker stops at words or names with apostrophes but doesn't add them to the dictionary. Can anyone out there advise me how to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Pete

If you go to Edit>Spelling>Check Spelling
You get a dialog box - the only options are for All Documents, Current Document, Story, To End of Story, or Selection
These are the options for checking spelling, ignore masters is not an option, unfortunately.
But you can select a range of text and use the Selection option to check the spelling.
Hope that helps.

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