Changing the language settings
Many languages are available for use with the writing tools You can choose a language for the current file or set it as the default language for all of the writing tools. You can also add and remove languages for the writing tools.
Many of the languages support hyphenation. Hyphenation lets you reduce the raggedness of text along the right margin by dividing a word that falls at the end of a line, instead of forcing the entire word to the next line. To check which languages support hyphenation, see “Writing tools supported languages.”
Every language has specific ways of formatting dates, time, currency symbols, and other text. You can check for the formatting conventions of another language. For example, the spelling checker can format all dates in a document according to French conventions (as in 12 avril 1996).
You can add a language to the writing tools. If you no longer require a language, you can remove it. You can make a language the default language.
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Click Tools, and click one of the following:
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Thesaurus
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Click Options
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In the Select language dialog box, choose a language from the Language list.
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To see only the languages supported by the current writing tool, enable the Show available languages only check box.
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To set the default language | |
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Click Tools, and click one of the following:
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Click Options
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In the Select language dialog box, choose a language from the Language list.
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Enable the Save as default writing tools language check box.
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To see only the languages supported by the current writing tool, enable the Show available languages only check box.
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To add a language | |
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Click Tools, and click one of the following:
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Click Options
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Click Add.
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In the Add language code dialog box, type the language code and description of the language that you want to add.
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To remove a language | |
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Click Tools, and click one of the following:
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Spell checker
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Click Options
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From the Language list box, choose a language.
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Click Remove.
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You can remove only languages you have added.
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