2007/1/11, Rachel Kelash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello. I just recently downloaded the openoffice software and was curious if there was a version available that would allow me to create documents in French as well as English which I could receive in the United States. The version I downloaded only seemed to contain German and a few other languages. Please let me know if there is something I could use. Thank you for your assistance. Rachel Dear Rachel
To quote another volunteer, Andy Pepperdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on this list: Here's a brief guide: 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. If you set up your styles for a language in an empty document and then save it as a template (File -> Templates -> Save), then you can select the appropriate one to start a new document with File -> New -> Templates and Documents -- 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. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ hope this helps -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.1 RC 2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.1 RC 1 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
