On Tuesday 11 April 2006 02:25, Mike McCormick wrote: > I have been pulling my hair out for 3 hours now. I have tried deleting and > reinstalling several times using several different download sites. How in > the world can I possibly get a spanish dictionary? I feel very frustrated. > I even went to a download site from Spain and I even downloaded the > Spanish language pack. My whole entire program is now in Spanish but I > still don't have a Spanish dictionary. I do have a (Swahilli ?) dictionary > though. I spelled that language incorrectly because I don't remember how > it's spelled but you get the idea. Spanish is spoken by millions of people > in this country. Thousands of T.V. and radio stations are broadcast in > Spanish in the U.S. > > Could you please explain to me how I can I can get a Spanish dictionary?
Languages in OpenOffice To obtain the relevant dictionaries, go to File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries and download the ones you want. To set the default language for your installation, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings / Languages and set the default for all your documents. If there is a dictionary for your selection, there will be a tick mark against it. It is important to remember that language is an attribute of the text of a document, and can be set differently in different parts of the same document. This allows foreign language quotes to be separately checked against the appropriate dictionary. To set the default for a document that is different from the default setting for all other documents, when you have opened the document (or started a new one) go to the Default style and change it there. F11 (or Format -> Styles and Formatting) brings up the style list. Right click on Default (or the root style for your document) go to Modify -> Font tab where you can set the language for this style and will be carried down to other styles derived from it unless otherwise changed. To change the language for a piece of text, highlight the text and go to Format -> Character -> Font tab (or right click -> Character -> Font) where you can set the language for just that portion of text. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
