For the life of me I can’t understand why Spell Check isn’t under Type in InDesign. In fact, it’s not really anywhere even close… you have to jump across Layout to Edit to find it and even then its near the bottom in a submenu of Spelling.
Save yourself the trouble and just memorize the shortcut, Command + I, or right click on the text you have selected, go to Spelling and find it there.
the designaholic 