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26<topic id="textswriterguidespellcheck_dialogxml" indexer="include">
27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Checking Spelling and Grammar</title>
28<filename>/text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp</filename>
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32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149684">
33<bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value>
34<bookmark_value>checking spelling;manually</bookmark_value>
35<bookmark_value>grammar checker</bookmark_value>
36</bookmark><comment>mw added "grammar checker"</comment>
37<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149684" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"
38oldref="37"><variable id="spellcheck_dialog"><link href="text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp" name="Checking Spelling and Grammar">Checking Spelling and Grammar</link>
39</variable></paragraph>
40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149814" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG" oldref="9">You can manually check the spelling and grammar of a text selection or the entire document.</paragraph>
41<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0525200902184476" role="note" l10n="NEW">To check the spelling and the grammar of a text, the appropriate dictionaries must be installed. For many languages three different dictionaries exist: a spellchecker, a hyphenation dictionary, and a thesaurus. Each dictionary covers one language only. Grammar checkers can be downloaded and installed as extensions. See the <link href="https://extensions.openoffice.org/dictionary">extensions web page</link>.</paragraph>
42<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149828" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="10">The spellcheck starts at the current cursor position, or at the beginning of the text selection.</paragraph>
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45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155859" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="43">Click in the document, or select the text that you want to check.</paragraph>
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47<listitem>
48<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="44">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling and Grammar</emph>.</paragraph>
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51<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156104" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="45">When a possible spelling error is encountered, the <item type="menuitem">Spellcheck</item> dialog opens and $[officename] offers some suggested corrections.</paragraph>
52</listitem>
53<listitem>
54<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149861" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="46">Do one of the following:</paragraph>
55<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145099" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="47">To accept a correction, click the suggestion, and then click <emph>Change</emph>.</paragraph>
56<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156241" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="48">Edit the sentence in the upper text box, and then click <emph>Change</emph>.</paragraph>
57<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155886" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="40">To add the unknown word to a user-defined dictionary, click <emph>Add</emph>.</paragraph>
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59</list>
60<section id="relatedtopics">
61<embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/>
62<comment>removed a line</comment>
63<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147107" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="49"><link href="text/shared/01/06010000.xhp" name="Spellcheck dialog">Spelling and Grammar dialog</link></paragraph>
64<embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp#using_hyphen"/>
65<embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_thesaurus.xhp#using_thesaurus"/>
66<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9625843" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Adding_More_Languages">Wiki page: Adding more languages</link></paragraph>
67<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1683706" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Spellchecking_in_More_Languages">Wiki page: Multiple language spellchecking</link></paragraph>
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69</body>
70</helpdocument>
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