1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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See the License for the 20*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * under the License. 22*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 23*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski ***********************************************************--> 24*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 25*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 26*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 27*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 28*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<meta> 29*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <topic id="textswriterguidespellcheck_dialogxml" indexer="include"> 30*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Checking Spelling and Grammar</title> 31*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <filename>/text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp</filename> 32*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </topic> 33*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </meta> 34*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <body> 35*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149684"><bookmark_value>spellcheck; checking text documents manually</bookmark_value> 36*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>checking spelling;manually</bookmark_value> 37*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <bookmark_value>grammar checker</bookmark_value> 38*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</bookmark><comment>mw added "grammar checker"</comment> 39*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149684" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 40*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski oldref="37"><variable id="spellcheck_dialog"><link href="text/swriter/guide/spellcheck_dialog.xhp" name="Checking Spelling and Grammar">Checking Spelling and Grammar</link> 41*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</variable></paragraph> 42*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 43*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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="http://extensions.openoffice.org/dictionary">extensions web page</link>.</paragraph> 44*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 45*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <list type="ordered"> 46*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 47*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 48*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 49*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149836" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="44">Choose <emph>Tools - Spelling and Grammar</emph>.</paragraph> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <emph/>dialog opens and $[officename] offers some suggested corrections.</paragraph> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <listitem> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149861" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="46">Do one of the following:</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </listitem> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </list> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <section id="relatedtopics"> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/swriter/guide/auto_spellcheck.xhp#auto_spellcheck"/> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<comment>removed a line</comment> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_hyphen.xhp#using_hyphen"/> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <embed href="text/swriter/guide/using_thesaurus.xhp#using_thesaurus"/> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 70*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski <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> 71*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </section> 72*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski </body> 73*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument>