
Here are some more features of the spelling checker:
• Right-click on a word with a wavy underline to open a menu. If
you select from the suggested words on the menu, the selection
will replace the misspelled word in your text.
• You can change the dictionary language (for example, to Spanish,
French or German) on the Spellcheck dialog.
• You can add a word to the dictionary. Click Add in the Spellcheck
dialog and pick the dictionary to add it to.
• The Options dialog of the Spellcheck tool has a number of
different options such as whether to check uppercase words and
words with numbers. It also allows you to manage custom
dictionaries, that is, add or delete dictionaries, and add or delete
words in a dictionary.
• On the Font tab of the Paragraph Styles dialog, you can set
paragraphs to be checked in a specific language (different from
the rest of the document). See Chapter 7 (Working with Styles) in
the
Writer Guide
for more information.
Using language tools
OOo provides some tools that make your work easier if you mix
multiple languages within the same document or write documents in
various languages.
You can set the language for the whole document, selected paragraphs,
or even individual words or characters. In versions earlier than OOo
3.0 it was necessary to use styles in order to insert within a document
paragraphs or individual groups of characters that use a different
language, while now this can be conveniently done from the main
menu.
Tip
Using character and paragraph styles is still the preferred
method, as styles allow a greater level of control and make
changing the language much faster. See Chapter 7 (Working
with Styles) in the
Writer Guide
for information on how to
manage the language settings of a style.
The main advantage of changing the language is that you can then use
the correct dictionaries to check spelling and apply the localized
versions of Autocorrect replacement tables, thesaurus, and
hyphenation rules.
The language tools can be found in Tools > Languages on the main
menu, as shown in Figure 66.
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