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.


To choose a language

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Click Tools, and click one of the following:
Spell checker
Grammatik
Thesaurus
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Click Options WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the language settings Language.
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In the Select language dialog box, choose a language from the Language list.

WordPerfect Office tip Changing the language settings

 
To see only the languages supported by the current writing tool, enable the Show available languages only check box.

To set the default language

WordPerfect Office btnbacktotopproc Changing the language settings
1.
 
Click Tools, and click one of the following:
Spell checker
Grammatik
Thesaurus
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Click Options WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the language settings Language.
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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.

WordPerfect Office tip Changing the language settings

 
To see only the languages supported by the current writing tool, enable the Show available languages only check box.

To add a language

WordPerfect Office btnbacktotopproc Changing the language settings
1.
 
Click Tools, and click one of the following:
Spell checker
Grammatik
Thesaurus
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Click Options WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the language settings Language.
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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.

To remove a language

WordPerfect Office btnbacktotopproc Changing the language settings
1.
 
Click Tools, and click one of the following:
Spell checker
Grammatik
Thesaurus
2.
 
Click Options WordPerfect Office onestep Changing the language settings Language.
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From the Language list box, choose a language.
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Click Remove.

WordPerfect Office note Changing the language settings

 
You can remove only languages you have added.

Changing the language settings