Thanks, Harold. That's very helpful. Warm regards, Alison In a message dated 17/09/2008 09:19:12 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2008/9/15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > I'd like to be able to use OpenOffice but the only English version listed on your download page is a US one. Is a UK English version available, please? Many thanks, Alison Hoskins (Mrs) There are two separate things to consider here: 1. The language of menus, Help text, error messages, tool tips etc. This is known as the User Interface (UI) language. 2. The language in which you write documents and in which you want spell checking done. Of course you might want different documents, or even different parts of the same document spell checked in different languages; this is entirely possible. These two language selections are entirely separate and you can easily set thing up so that, for example, your documents are spell checked in French but your menus etc. are in Chinese. As far as the UI is concerend, I don't think there is a British English version at the moment. I just put up with this, to my mind, very minor incovenience. I do insist, however, that my documents are spell checked in British English. To get the British English dictionary for spell checking, open a Writer document (or just start a new blank one) and go to the File>Wizrads Install New Dictionaries menu. Select English as the language for the menus you will see. Then select British (or UK, I thinks it's named) English for each dictionary - spelling, hyphenation and thesaurus. The dictionaries will be downloaded to your computer. Once this process has finished, go to the Tools>Options>Language Settings>Languages menu and select UK English as the "Default Language for Documents". Assuming you don't want multilingual spell checking, make sure the little "For this document only" box is *not* ticked. Close Writer. Job done. If you have any problems with any of this come back here with details of what you did and exactly what happened. Hope this helps. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[email protected])
