At 12:55 03/11/2007 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
I do my writing in US English, and use the appropriate Spellcheck
Dictionaries (plus a couple custom ones, such as "Proper Names") for this.
However, I am thinking of submitting a document (Writer) to a
foreign market that wants me to use UK English. I want to make a
special copy of the document, then run Spellcheck on it with the UK
Dictionary, without disturbing my settings for all my other
documents. Can I do this? Or do I have to change all my settings to
UK, run the Spellcheck, and then change all my settings back?
Anybody out there who regularly runs Spellcheck on different
languages and can give me a clue to the easiest way to accomplish this? Thanks.
This is a great deal easier than you seem to think. If the entire
document is in another language, just change the language associated
with all the paragraph styles you may have used (perhaps just the
one: Default?) to that language. To do this, use right-click | Edit
Paragraph Style... | Font and change the language there. This
changes the language associated with just the copy of those styles in
your current document, so there is nothing to change back
afterwards. When you open a new document, you will get clean copies
of the default styles with your default language. If you need to,
you can also create separate paragraph styles for different
languages, so that you can even mix languages within a single document.
If you need to use character styles, you will need to set the
language of those as well.
Oh, and go to File | Wizards > | Install new dictionaries... to
download and install the dictionary for English (UK) if you have not
already done so.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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