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Using built-in language tools

Writer provides some tools that make your work easier if you mix multiple languages

within the same document or if you write documents in various languages:

• Paragraph and character styles

• Using Tools > Language

• Using language settings in Options

• Using the status bar

The main advantage of changing the language for a text selection 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.

You can also set the language for a paragraph or a group of characters as None (Do

not check spelling). This option is especially useful when you insert text such as

web addresses or programming language snippets that you do not want to check for

spelling.

Using paragraph and character styles

Specifying the language in character and paragraph styles is the preferred method,

because styles allow a greater level of control and make changing the language much

faster. On the Font tab of the Paragraph Styles dialog box, you can specify that

certain paragraphs be checked in a language that is different from the language of

the rest of the document. See Chapter 7 (Working with Styles) for information on how

to manage the language settings of a style.

Using Tools > Language

You can also set the language for the whole document, for individual paragraphs, or

even for individual words and characters, all from Tools > Language on the menu

bar.

For Selection

Applies a specified language to the selected text (the selection can be as short as

a few characters or as long as several paragraphs).

For Paragraph

Select this option to apply the specified language to the paragraph where the

cursor is located.

For all Text

Select this option to apply the specified language to all the document.

Using language settings in Options

Another way to change the language of a whole document is to use Tools > Options

> Language Settings > Languages. In the Default languages for documents

section (Figure 86), you can choose a different language for all the text.

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